Asylum Seekers
Mr. Coleman:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many outstanding asylum applications remained unprocessed from (i) the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, (ii) Iraq, (iii) Somalia and (iv) Afghanistan on 30 June; and if he will make a statement. [90576]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
It is estimated that as at the end of March 1999, the latest date for which figures are available, the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision for nationals of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was 9,540; Iraq 1,920; Somalia 4,900; and Afghanistan 2,325.
Mr. Coleman:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications were processed in (a) May and (b) June, from (i) the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, (ii) Iraq and (iii) Somalia; how many of these were (1) agreed and (2) refused; and if he will make a statement. [90575]
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Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The available information is given in the table. I regret that information for June is not available until the statistics are published on the Home Office website on the 26 July.
Initial decisions made on applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom (5)(6) by type, nationals of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Somalia, May 1999
| Number
|
|---|
| Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
|
| Total decisions | 1,675
|
| of which: |
|
| Grants of asylum | 1,340
|
| Grants of ELR | --
|
| Refusals | 10
|
| Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria(7)(8) | 325
|
| Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria(7) | --
|
| |
|
| Iraq |
|
| Total decisions | 45
|
| of which: |
|
| Grants of asylum | 15
|
| Grants of ELR | 25
|
| Refusals | 5
|
| Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria(7)(8) | --
|
| Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria(7) | --
|
| Somalia |
|
| Total decisions | 15
|
| of which: |
|
| Grants of asylum | 5
|
| Grants of ELR | *
|
| Refusals | 5
|
| Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria(7)(8) | 5
|
| Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria(7) | --
|
(5) Figures rounded to nearest 5, with '*' = 1 or 2
(6) Excluding dependants
(7) Cases decided under pragmatic measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog
(8) May include a small number of cases where asylum has been granted
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Mr. Coleman:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications from Afghanistan were processed in each calendar month since January; how many of these were (a) agreed and (b) refused; and if he will make a statement. [90598]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The requested information is given in the table.
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Initial decisions made on applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom (9)(10) by type January to May 1999, nationals of Afghanistan
| January 1999 | February 1999 | March 1999 | April 1999 | May 1999
|
|---|
| Total decisions | 130 | 100 | 125 | 320 | 140
|
| of which: | | | | |
|
| Grants of asylum | -- | -- | -- | * | 5
|
| Grants of ELR | 130 | 100 | 115 | 315 | 125
|
| Refusals | 5 | * | 10 | 5 | 10
|
| Grants of ELR under the backlog criteria(11)(12) | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
|
| Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria(11) | -- | -- | -- | -- | --
|
(9) Figures rounded to nearest 5, with * = 1 or 2
(10) Excluding dependants
(11) Cases decided under pragmatic measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog
(12) May include a small number of cases where asylum has been granted
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Youth Justice
Dr. Cable:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the planned optimum ratio of staff to young offenders in all juvenile secure accommodation as envisaged by the Youth Justice Board in its planned reform of juvenile secure accommodation. [91011]
Mr. Boateng:
The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales has provided initial advice on the reform of juvenile secure accommodation referred to in my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Mr. Leslie), 8 March 1999, Official Report, columns 28-29. A copy is in the Library. The advice does not set out an optimum ratio of staff to young offenders, but it does reflect the Board's view that secure facilities should have sufficient experienced and qualified staff on duty at any time to provide regimes geared towards preventing offending by children and young people.
Dr. Cable:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the designated areas which (a) did not have a youth justice team in place and (b) had not appointed a youth offending team manager as at 30 June. [91080]
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Mr. Boateng:
Section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 required local authorities with social services and education responsibilities to establish youth offending teams in partnership with the police, probation service and health authorities. They will replace existing youth justice teams. The Government expect to implement the provisions nationwide in April 2000.
The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales understands that, so far, youth offending team managers have been appointed for 125 of the 171 relevant local authority areas. In each case the manager has already established a team or is in the process of doing so. Individual authorities are given in the table. Further details of the teams are available on the Youth Justice Board's website at www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk.
YOT managers appointed in England and Wales by Government region
| London | Manager appointed Yes/No
|
|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | Yes
|
| Barnet | Yes
|
| Bexley | Yes
|
| Brent | Yes
|
| Bromley | Yes
|
| Camden | Yes
|
| City of London | Yes (jointly with Tower Hamlets)
|
| Croydon | Yes
|
| Ealing | Yes
|
| Enfield | Yes
|
| Greenwich | Yes
|
| Hackney | No
|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | Yes
|
| Haringey | Yes
|
| Harrow | Yes
|
| Havering | No
|
| Hillingdon | Yes
|
| Hounslow | Yes
|
| Islington | Yes
|
| Kensington and Chelsea | Yes
|
| Kingston-upon-Thames | Yes
|
| Lambeth | Yes
|
| Lewisham | Yes
|
| Merton | Yes
|
| Newham | No
|
| Redbridge | No
|
| Richmond-upon-Thames | No
|
| Southwark | Yes
|
| Sutton | No
|
| Tower Hamlets | Yes (jointly with the City of London)
|
| Waltham Forest | Yes
|
| Wandsworth | Yes
|
| Westminster | Yes
|
| |
|
| South East |
|
| Bracknell Forest | No
|
| Brighton and Hove | Yes
|
| Buckinghamshire | Yes
|
| East Sussex | Yes
|
| Hampshire | Yes (jointly with Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight)
|
| Isle of Wight | Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth)
|
| Kent | Yes
|
| Medway | Yes
|
| Milton Keynes | Yes
|
| Oxfordshire | Yes
|
| Portsmouth | Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Southampton and the Isle of Wight)
|
| Reading | Yes (jointly with Wokingham)
|
| Slough | Yes
|
| Southampton | Yes (jointly with Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight)
|
| Surrey | Yes
|
| West Berkshire | No
|
| West Sussex | Yes
|
| Windsor and Maidenhead | No
|
| Wokingham | Yes (jointly with Reading)
|
| |
|
| Eastern |
|
| Bedfordshire | Yes
|
| Cambridgeshire | Yes
|
| Essex | Yes
|
| Hertfordshire | Yes
|
| Luton | Yes
|
| Norfolk | Yes
|
| Peterborough | No
|
| Southend | No
|
| Suffolk | Yes
|
| Thurrock | No
|
| |
|
| South West |
|
| Bath and North East Somerset | Yes
|
| Bournemouth | Yes (jointly with Poole)
|
| Bristol | Yes
|
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | Yes
|
| Devon | Yes
|
| Dorset | No
|
| Gloucestershire | Yes
|
| North Somerset | No
|
| Plymouth | No
|
| Poole | Yes (jointly with Bournemouth)
|
| Somerset | Yes
|
| Swindon | Yes
|
| South Gloucestershire | Yes
|
| Torbay | No
|
| Wiltshire | Yes
|
| |
|
| West Midlands |
|
| Birmingham | Yes
|
| Coventry | Yes
|
| Dudley | No
|
| Herefordshire | Yes (jointly with Worcestershire)
|
| Sandwell | Yes
|
| Solihull | No
|
| Staffordshire | Yes
|
| Stoke-on-Trent | Yes
|
| Shropshire | Yes (jointly with The Wrekin)
|
| Walsall | Yes
|
| Warwickshire | Yes
|
| Wolverhampton | Yes
|
| Worcestershire | Yes (jointly with Herefordshire)
|
| The Wrekin | Yes (jointly with Shropshire)
|
| |
|
| East Midlands |
|
| Derby | Yes
|
| Derbyshire | Yes
|
| Leicester | Yes
|
| Leicestershire | Yes
|
| Lincolnshire | Yes (jointly with North Lincolnshire)
|
| Northamptonshire | Yes
|
| Nottingham | Yes
|
| Nottinghamshire | Yes
|
| Rutland | No
|
| |
|
| Yorkshire and The Humber |
|
| Barnsley | No
|
| Bradford | Yes
|
| Calderdale | Yes
|
| Doncaster | No
|
| East Riding of Yorkshire | Yes
|
| Kingston-upon-Hull | Yes
|
| Kirklees | No
|
| Leeds | No
|
| North Lincolnshire | Yes (jointly with Lincolnshire)
|
| North East Lincolnshire | Yes
|
| North Yorkshire | Yes
|
| Rotherham | Yes
|
| Sheffield | Yes
|
| Wakefield | Yes
|
| York | Yes
|
| |
|
| North West |
|
| Blackburn with Darwen | Yes
|
| Blackpool | Yes
|
| Bolton | Yes
|
| Bury | Yes
|
| Cheshire | Yes
|
| Cumbria | Yes
|
| Halton | Yes (jointly with Warrington)
|
| Knowsley | Yes
|
| Lancashire | Yes
|
| Liverpool | No
|
| Manchester | Yes
|
| Oldham | No
|
| Rochdale | No
|
| Salford | Yes
|
| Sefton | Yes
|
| St. Helens | Yes
|
| Stockport | Yes
|
| Tameside | Yes
|
| Trafford | Yes
|
| Warrington | Yes (jointly with Halton)
|
| Wigan | Yes
|
| Wirral | Yes
|
| North East |
|
| Darlington | No
|
| Durham | Yes
|
| Gateshead | No
|
| Hartlepool | Yes
|
| Middlesborough | Yes (jointly with Redcar and Cleveland)
|
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Yes
|
| North Tyneside | No
|
| Northumberland | No
|
| Redcar and Cleveland | Yes (jointly with Middlesborough)
|
| South Tyneside | Yes
|
| Stockton-on-Tees | Yes
|
| Sunderland | Yes
|
| |
|
| Wales |
|
| Blaenau Gwent | No
|
| Bridgend | Yes
|
| Caerphilly | No
|
| Cardiff | No
|
| Carmarthenshire | No
|
| Ceredigion | No
|
| Conwy | No
|
| Denbighshire | No
|
| Flintshire | Yes (jointly with Wrexham)
|
| Gwynedd | No
|
| Merthyr Tydfil | No
|
| Monmouthshire | No
|
| Neath Port Talbot | Yes
|
| Newport | No
|
| Pembrokeshire | Yes
|
| Powys | No
|
| Rhondda Cynon Taff | No
|
| Swansea | Yes
|
| Torfaen | No
|
| Vale of Glamorgan | No
|
| Wrexham | Yes (jointly with Flintshire)
|
| Ynys Mon | No
|
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