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Fur Farms
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the estimated value in sales was of the fur farming industry in the final year of production. [178285]
Mr. Bradshaw: I have been asked to reply.
Figures on fur farming industry sales could be provided only at disproportionate cost. We estimate that profits were roughly £650,000 a year before production tailed off leading up to the ban.
Northern Cyprus (Trade)
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the value of (a) imports from and (b) exports to the Turkish Cypriot regime in Northern Cyprus was in the last three years. [178772]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
I am told that information on UK trade in goods is classified by HM Customs and Excise according to the "Geonomenclature of the European Communities". This geographic classification is an internationally agreed list of countries and territories against which figures for overseas trade are represented. It does not distinguish between Turkish Cyprus and Greek Cyprus and so the information requested is not available.
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Nuclear Waste
Mr. Page: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of nuclear waste held at approved storage centres in the United Kingdom is from the nuclear weapons programme. [174977]
Mr. Morley: I have been asked to reply.
Of the total combined high level and intermediate level nuclear wastes held at approved storage centres in the United Kingdom and identified in the 2001 United Kingdom Radioactive Waste Inventory, some 24 per cent. is attributable to the nuclear weapons programme. It is predicted that, by the year 2100, this figure will reduce to less than 14 per cent. Approximately 2.6 per cent. of the intermediate level waste is held at AWE Aldermaston and the remainder of the waste is held at British Nuclear Fuels and United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority sites.
Offshore Renewables
Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions have taken place between her Department and the offshore renewables industry in the last 12 months. [178723]
Mr. Timms: DTI Ministers and officials have had a large number of meetings on a range of issues with the offshore renewable energy industry over the past 12 months, including with representative organisations such as the British Wind Energy Association. We have also spoken at and attended various industry conferences.
Post Office Reinvention Programme
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what action she intends to take to ensure that most people in Birmingham will be within half a mile of a post office at the completion of the Post Office urban reinvention programme. [177700]
Mr. Timms: The commitment to ensure that at least 95 per cent. of the urban population nationally will still live within one mile of a post office at the end of the urban reinvention programme is an operational responsibility of Post Office Ltd. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive to respond direct to the hon. Member.
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations she has received from Post Office Ltd. on the Post Office urban reinvention programme since 18 May; and if she will make a statement. [177703]
Mr. Timms:
I can confirm that there have been contacts since 18 May between Post Office Ltd. and my officials about the company's urban reinvention programme.
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HOME DEPARTMENT
Advisers/Consultants
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultants and advisers in each of the last three years. [172438]
Fiona Mactaggart: The available information held by the Home Office on the cost of using external consultants in each of the financial years; 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 is as follows:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| 2000–2001 | 27,877,286 |
| 2001–2002 | 21,147,058 |
| 2002–2003 | N/a |
The increase in expenditure on external consultancy in 2000–01 was primarily, due to costs incurred on the Home Office modernisation programme, in particular Information Technology (IT) related consultancy.
The high spend figures for 2001–02 includes the cost ofsetting up the National Probation Directorate and various consultancies on IT Business Change.
We do not hold information on the cost to the Home Office of using external consultants for 2002–03 and to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost.
The use of external consultants has helped the Department to successfully deliver projects across the office, which has resulted in improved business processes. A further benefit has been the transfer of specialist skills and knowledge to staff.
Asylum and Immigration
Mr. Laxton:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of asylum decisions
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on average over the last five years were initially rejected and subsequently accepted on appeal; and what percentage of these appeals were accepted on (a) first, (b) second and (c) subsequent appeal. [161053]
Mr. Browne: The information requested is not available on average over the last five years, and could be produced only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.
However, a cohort analysis up to and including appeals at the IAA was carried out for asylum applications made in 2002. It is estimated that around four in ten (42 per cent.) of applications in 2002 resulted in the granting of asylum (10 1 per cent.) or of exceptional leave to remain (23 1 per cent.) or in appeals which were allowed by the IAA adjudicators (a further 10 per cent).
Based on cases where data are available, it is estimated that 77 per cent. of initial refusals of applications made in 2002 resulted in an appeal (i.e. 54 per cent. of applications in 2002 resulted in appeals), and that 10 per cent. of applications made in 2002 resulted in appeals allowed at the IAA.
Asylum cases are determined according to their individual merits. The rates of refusal at initial decision and at appeal change over time reflecting a variety of factors including the changing mix of applicant nationalities, and changing situations in source countries. Over the last five years the vast majority of appeals have been dismissed, at the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA) and at the Immigration Appeal Tribunal (IAT).
Applications for leave to appeal to the IAT may be brought either by appellants or by the Secretary of State. The majority of applications for leave to appeal to the IAT are dismissed.
The latest available data on initial decisions and appeal outcomes and Judicial Reviews is given in the tables.
1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.
| Cases considered under normal procedures(20) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial decisions(19) | Granted asylum | Granted exceptional leave to remain | Granted humanitarian protection | |||||
| Percentage(21) | Percentage(21) | Percentage(21) | Percentage(21) | |||||
| 1999 | 33,720 | (100) | 7,815 | (36) | 2,465 | (12) | n/a | — |
| 2000 | 109,205 | (100) | 10,375 | (11) | 11,495 | (12) | n/a | — |
| 2001(23) | 120,950 | (100) | 11,450 | (9) | 20,190 | (17) | n/a | — |
| 2002(24) | 83,540 | (100) | 8,270 | (10) | 20,135 | (24) | n/a | — |
| 2003(24) | 64,605 | (100) | 3,880 | (6) | 3,970 | (6) | 135 | (0) |
(18) Figures rounded to the nearest 5.
(19) Information is of initial decisions, excluding the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions.
(20) Cases considered under normal procedures may include some cases decided under the backlog criteria.
(21) Percentages for cases considered under normal procedures and those within the backlog clearance exercise are calculated separately.
(22) Cases decided under measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum application backlog.
(23) Revised figures.
(24) Provisional figures
n/a=Not applicable.
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| Allowed 3 | Dismissed 3 | Withdrawn(27) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total determined 2 | Total | As percentage of total determined | Total | As percentage of total determined | Total | As percentage of total determined | |
| 1999 | 19,460 | 5,280 | 27 | 11,135 | 57 | 3,050 | 16 |
| 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 | 81,725 | 16,070 | 20 | 63,810 | 78 | 1,845 | 2 |
(25) Figures, other than percentages, rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.
(26) Based on information supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Determinations do not necessarily relate to appeals received in the same period. Appeals determined by the IAA may relate to initial decisions made in previous years.
(27) Based on data supplied from the Presenting Officers Unit within the Home Office.
Data for 2002 and 2003 are provisional.
| Applications for leave to appeal to the Tribunal 2 | Appeals to the Tribunal 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | Decisions | Received | Determined | |
| 1999 | 8,635 | 9,575 | 2,135 | 1,790 |
| 2000 | 6,020 | 5,490 | 1,615 | 2,635 |
| 2001 | 15,540 | 13,540 | 3,860 | 3,190 |
| 2002(31) | 25,600 | 22,825 | 6,920 | 5,565 |
| Allowed | Dismissed | Withdrawn | Remitted to adjudicators for further consideration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2000 | 815 | 1,385 | 220 | 215 |
| 2001 | 475 | 1,140 | 150 | 1,430 |
| 2002(31) | 620 | 2,015 | 225 | 2,700 |
| Appellant | Secretary of State | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allowed | Dismissed | Withdrawn | Allowed | Dismissed | Withdrawn | |
| 1999 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2000 | 650 | 1,225 | 185 | 170 | 165 | 35 |
| 2001 | 315 | 1,020 | 125 | 160 | 120 | 25 |
| 2002(31) | 410 | 1,880 | 210 | 215 | 130 | 15 |
(28) Figures rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.
(29) 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. Appeals determined by the I AT may relate to cases determined at the IAA made in previous years
(30) Figures supplied by the Presenting Officers Unit. Figures for October-December 1999 are based on data for November-December.
(31) Provisional figures.
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| Applications for leave to move for judicial review(32) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | Decisions(33) | Of which granted leave to move | Percentage of applicants granted leave to move(34) | |
| 19996,7 Q1, Q2 and Q4 1,790 | 1,125 | 395 | (35) | |
| 2000(37) | 1,920 | 2,095 | 555 | (26) |
| 2001(37) | 2,210 | 2,300 | 290 | (13) |
| 2002(39) | 3,075 | 2,980 | 260 | (9) |
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| Allowed 4 | Dismissed 5 | Withdrawn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | As percentage of total determined | Total | As percentage of total determined | Total | As percentage of total determined | |
| 19996,7 Q1,Q2 and Q4 | 135 | (57) | 25 | (11) | 75 | (32) |
| 2000(37) | 365 | (48) | 300 | (40) | 95 | (12) |
| 2001(37) | 260 | (68) | 60 | (16) | 60 | (16) |
| 2002(39) | 25 | (30) | 60 | (67) | 5 | (3) |
(32) Figures based on administrative court data. Figures (other than percentages) rounded to the nearest 5
(33) Decisions do not relate to applications in any given period.
(34) The number of which granted leave to move as a percentage of decisions.
(35) Figures exclude judicial reviews brought in cases relating to asylum support (NASS).
(36) Estimated figures.
(37) 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.
(38) The decision of the respondent was upheld.
(39) Provisional figures.
Figures on asylum initial decision and appeals outcomes are published in the annual Home Office statistical bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom, and in the quarterly asylum statistics web pages. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many potential immigrants were refused admission to the UK following advice from medical inspectors on a Port Form 104 for each of the last five years at (a) Heathrow and (b) other United Kingdom ports; and how many other immigrants were refused entry in each of those five years. [156846]
Mr. Browne: Information on the number of people refused leave to enter the UK following advice given on a port form 104 is not collated centrally.
Information on the number of passengers refused entry in each of the last five years is detailed as follows. The table contains data on the total number of passengers (including those removed on medical grounds) refused entry and removed for all ports 1998–02. Information on a particular port of entry is not available except at disproportionate cost.
Below is an extract from information published in the Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002" (Cm6053), obtainable from the House Library, The Stationery Office and via the Home Office website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hobpubs1.html
| Total (units) | |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 27,605 |
| 1999 | 31,295 |
| 2000 | 38,275 |
| 2001 | 37,865 |
| 2002 | 50,360 |
(40) Not necessarily in the same year as arrival.
David Davis:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passengers were refused entry at port and subsequently removed in each year
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since 1992, broken down by ports of entry; and to what he attributes the fall between 2002 and 2003 indicated in the rounded figures released on 4 April. [169253]
Mr. Browne: Information on the number of people who were refused leave to enter at port and were subsequently removed in each year from 1992 to 2002 is shown in the table.
| Total | |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 14,950 |
| 1993 | 16,740 |
| 1994 | 17,220 |
| 1995 | 19,150 |
| 1996 | 21,200 |
| 1997 | 24,535 |
| 1998 | 27,605 |
| 1999 | 31,295 |
| 2000 | 38,275 |
| 2001 | 37,865 |
| 2002(44) | 50,360 |
(41) Figures up to March 2001 may include a small number of dependants of port asylum applicants.
(42) Not necessarily in the same year as arrival.
(43) Figures are rounded to nearest five.
(44) Provisional figures.
Information on the port of entry of these individuals is not available except by examination of individual case-files at disproportionate cost.
The information released on 6 April was management information. Although no in-depth analysis has yet been conducted on the apparent fall in the numbers of passengers refused and removed, early indications are that the decrease may have been a result of the overall deterrent effect of our strategies, in particular, the imposition of visa regimes for Zimbabwean and Jamaican nationals; Direct Airside Transit Visas; and the expansion of the Airline Liaison Officer network.
Official statistics on the number of people removed from the UK in 2003, including those people who were removed after being refused leave to enter will be available later this year in the Home Office statistical bulletin "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2003" on the Home Office web-site www. homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
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