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Police Reorganisation

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to reorganise the Police Service in England. [137851]

Ms Blears: A major consultation exercise on the future direction of police reform was launched on 4 November 2003 with the publication of "Policing: Building Safer Communities Together". Among other things, this paper opens the debate on whether the current 43 force structure in England and Wales is the right one for today's and tomorrow's policing needs.

We are clear that any structural change will need to deliver improvements in police performance and delivery of service.

Deportations

Denzil Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals who had been refused political asylum were deported in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [137060]

Beverley Hughes: Deportations are a just one type of removal; others include: persons subject to administrative removal, removal due to illegal entry action or those refused entry at port and subsequently removed.

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The table shows the number of asylum seekers who were removed from the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2002. These are steadily being increased.

Removals and voluntary departures⁽¹¹³⁾of asylum applicants,2000 to 2002⁽¹¹⁴⁾

	2000	2001	(115)2002
Principal Applicants	8,980	9,285	10,740
Dependants(116)	N/a	1,495	3,170

⁽¹¹³⁾ Figures have been rounded to the nearest five.

⁽¹¹⁴⁾ Includes persons departing "voluntarily" after enforcement action has been initiated against them and persons leaving under the Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration, and removals on safe third country grounds.

⁽¹¹⁵⁾ Provisional data subject to change.

⁽¹¹⁶⁾ Data on dependants removed have been collected only since April 2001 onwards.

N/A—Not available

Information on asylum removals is published quarterly. The next publication will cover the third quarter (July to September) of 2003 and will be available from 27 November 2002 on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

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Denzil Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals lost their appeals to the adjudicator against the refusal of political asylum in the last three years for which figures are available. [137061]

Beverley Hughes: The latest available data is given in the following tables. The tables show the outcomes of appeals determined by adjudicators of the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), further appeals to the

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tribunal (including those brought by the Secretary of State), and applications for judicial review in the last three years. Only a proportion of those that are refused asylum lodge appeals, and the majority of appeals are dismissed.

Cases are determined according to their individual merits. The figures relate to numbers of cases; appeals determined by the IAA may relate to initial decisions made in previous years, and appeals determined by the IAT may relate to cases determined at the IAA made in previous years.

Asylum appeals determined by adjudicators of the Immigration Appellate Authority, excluding dependants^(117),(118)

	Number of principal appellants
		Allowed(120)		Dismissed(120)		Withdrawn(120)
	Total determined(119)	Total	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined
2000	19,395	3,340	17	15,580	80	475	2
2001	43,415	8,155	19	34,440	79	825	2
2002	64,405	13,875	22	48,845	76	1,685	3
2003
Q1	20,595	3,480	17	16,445	80	670	3
Q2	19,345	4,060	21	14,875	77	415	2

⁽¹¹⁷⁾ Figures, other than percentages, rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.

⁽¹¹⁸⁾ Data for 2002 and 2003 are provisional.

⁽¹¹⁹⁾ Based on information supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Determinations do not necessarily relate to appeals received in the same period.

⁽¹²⁰⁾ Based on data supplied from the Presenting Officers Unit within the Home Office.

Note:

Estimate. Figures rounded to the nearest hundred, and subject to later revision.

Further appeals to the Tribunal, decisions, and the outcome of tribunal hearings, excluding dependants, 2000 to 2002⁽¹²¹⁾Number of principal appellants

	Applications for leave toappeal to the tribunal(122)		Appeals to the tribunal(122)
	Applications	Decisions	Received	Determined
2000	6,020	5,490	1,615	2,635
2001	15,540	13,540	3,860	3,190
2002(P)	25,600	22,825	6,920	5,565

Number of principal appellants

	Outcome of tribunal hearings(123)
	Allowed	Dismissed	Withdrawn	Remitted to adjudicatorsfor further consideration
2000	815	1,385	220	215
2001	475	1,140	150	1,430
2002(124)	620	2,015	225	2,700

Number of principal appellants

	Outcome of Tribunal Hearings(123)
		Appellant				Secretary of State
	Allowed	Dismissed	Withdrawn	Allowed	Dismissed	Withdrawn
2000	650	1,225	185	170	165	35
2001	315	1,020	25	160	120	25
2002(124)	410	1,880	210	215	130	15

⁽¹²¹⁾ Figures rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.

⁽¹²²⁾ Figures based on data supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Decisions and determinations do not necessarily correspond to applications and appeals received in any given year.

⁽¹²³⁾ Figures supplied by the Presenting Officers Unit. Figures for October—December 1999 are based on data for November-December.

⁽¹²⁴⁾ Provisional figures.

Note:

Revised figures.

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Applications for judicial review, and outcomes, excluding dependants, 1994 to 2002

	Applications for leave to move for judicial review(125)
	Applications	Decisions(126)	of which granted leave to move	Percentage of applicants granted leave to move(127)	Total
2000(130)	1,920	2,095	555	(26)	365
2001(130)	2,210	2,300	290	(13)	260
2002(131)	3,075	2,980	260	(9)	25

	The outcome of judicial review hearings(125)
		Allowed(128)			Dismissed(130)		Withdrawn
	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined
2000(130)	(48)	300	(40)	95	(12)
2001(130)	(68)	60	(16)	60	(16)
2002(131)	(30)	60	(67)	5	(3)

⁽¹²⁵⁾ Figures based on Administrative Court data. Figures (other than percentages) rounded to the nearest 5 with . = 1 or 2.

⁽¹²⁶⁾ Decisions do not relate to applications in any given period.

⁽¹²⁷⁾ The number of which granted leave to move as a percentage of decisions.

⁽¹²⁸⁾ The decision of the respondent (in this case, the Home Office or the Department for Constitutional Affairs) was quashed. These figures include consent orders where the JR was conceded by the respondent.

⁽¹²⁹⁾ The decision of the respondent was upheld.

⁽¹³⁰⁾ Figures exclude judicial reviews brought in cases relating to asylum support (NASS).

⁽¹³¹⁾ Provisional figures.

Figures on asylum appeals are published quarterly and are available on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate web site at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html

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