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]
The available information is shown in the table.
Number of cases (principal applicants)
| ||
Month
| Asylum appeals received by the Home Office 1
| Asylum Appeals received by the IAA 1,2
|
July 2002 | 4,565 | 4,500 |
August 2002 | 3,960 | 4,510 |
September 2002 | 3,905 | 9,635 |
October 2002 | 4,965 | 4,475 |
November 2002 | 3,740 | 6,080 |
December 2002 | 3,575 | 6,110 |
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