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Immigration

Volume 410: debated on Friday 19 September 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what extra resources have been provided in the last three years to police authorities to enable them to deal with the policing of immigrants. [131264]

Expenditure on policing supported by Government has increased by 25 per cent. in the past three years. It is a matter for each police authority to match resources to local policing requirements.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what statistics are maintained on the criminal activities of (a) illegal immigrants and (b) seekers of political asylum. [131265]

The statistics referred to are not available from existing data collection systems and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.Details of the nationality and immigration status of suspects or of those convicted of crimes are not collated centrally as part of the recorded crime statistics and are not necessarily recorded by individual police forces.Information on asylum applications is published quarterly on the Home Office website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigrationl.html. The next publication will be available from the end of November and will cover the third quarter of 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases in each of the last 12 months have been (a) sent to the Appeals Processing Centre and (b) despatched to the Immigration Appellate Authority. [130611]

Number of cases (principal applicants)

Month

Asylum appeals received by the Home Office

1

Asylum Appeals received by the IAA

1,2

July 20024,5654,500
August 20023,9604,510
September 20023,9059,635
October 20024,9654,475
November 20023,7406,080
December 20023,5756,110
January 2003

33,400

6,015
February 2003

34,000

6,025
March 2003

35,200

6,045
April 2003

33,700

5,825
May 2003

33,400

6,025
June 2003

33,600

5,985

1 Figures rounded to the nearest five, and are provisional.

2 Based on information supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

3 Figures rounded to the nearest 100. and subject to later revision.

Information on the number of asylum appeals received by the Home Office, and the number of appeals received by the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), is published quarterly on the Home Office website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigrationl. html