To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum cases included in the Legacy Cases Review are awaiting allocation to a case worker. (208576)

In December 2007, we allocated over 330,000 principal applicant cases to around 60 case owners. At that date, 52,000 cases had been concluded and we believe that the caseload also includes around 60,000 to 70,000 dependants.

Some cases were not allocated at that time and so we are continuing to refine our processes for allocating cases.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has set the UK Border Agency a target for the review under the Legacy Cases Review of asylum claims first made in 2000; and if she will make a statement. (208577)

The work to clear the backlog of unresolved asylum cases was announced in July 2006 with the aim to clear these cases in five years or less. We remain confident that we are on track to conclude these cases by the summer of 2011.