To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will give a breakdown by (a) sex and (b) age group of asylum applicants granted leave to remain in the UK via (i) asylum status, (ii) exceptional leave to remain, discretionary leave to remain or humanitarian protection, (iii) the 1998 backlog exercise and (iv) the 2000 family ILR exercise in each year since 1997. (177337)

Information on initial decisions by sex for years 2001 to 2006 are available from the annual Statistical Bulletins Asylum Statistics United Kingdom.

Information on initial decisions by age of applicants for years 1997 to 2000 are available from the annual Statistical Bulletins Asylum Statistics United Kingdom, information for 2001 to 2006 will be placed in the House Libraries. Categories and the presentation of data changed in 2001 and this is reflected in the tables provided.

Information on the 1998 backlog exercise and the 2000 family ILR exercise is not available broken down by age and sex and could be obtained by examination of individual case records only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of the people whose asylum cases (a) were considered under the Legacy Casework Programme were unsuccessful have been removed and (b) are awaiting removal; and if she will make a statement. (179102)

In her update to the Home Affairs Select Committee of 17 December 2007, Lin Homer (the chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency) stated that 52,000 cases have been concluded by the Case Resolution Directorate, of which about 16,000 have led to removals. We do not hold information on how many cases have been considered and are awaiting removal.

Lin Homer gave an undertaking to update the Home Affairs Select Committee every six months.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seeker legacy cases have been recognised in (a) Newcastle and (b) the North East; and how many such cases have been determined. (178191)

[holding answer 15 January 2008]: The information requested cannot be provided except by examining individual case records at disproportionate cost.