Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeal hearings at the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) were (a) withdrawn and (b) adjourned because the Home Office did not send a representative in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service.

There are no available data relating to numbers of appeals withdrawn where the Home Office representative did not attend the hearing.

The number of appeal hearings adjourned because the Home Office did not send a representative in (i) 2012-13 was 64 (ii) 2013-14 was 61 and (iii) 2014-15 was 68. For comparison, the figure in 2009/10 was 94.

Data provided are internal Management Information and not subject to the same quality checks as Official Statistics.