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Anti-social Behaviour Orders

Mr. Hurst: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders have been made in (a) Essex and (b) Braintree district. [188558]

Ms Blears: The number of notifications, as reported to the Home Office, of anti-social behaviour orders issued within Essex, from 1 April 1999 up to 31 March 2004 (latest available) is 25. Of these none have had restrictions imposed specific to the Braintree district council area.

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) have been made in each year since their introduction; how many of these were issued to children and young people; and how many and what percentage of those charged with breach of an ASBO have subsequently been sent to young offenders institutes. [189095]

Ms Blears: The available information is given in the attached tables.
Table A: the number of Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued at all courts, as reported to the Home Office,by period and age group

England and Wales
Period	Total issued	Age 10 to17	Age 18 to 20	Age 21+	Age not known
1 April 1999 to 31 May 2000	104	—	—	—	(20)104
1 June 2000 to 31 December 2000	135	61	21	38	15
1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001	322	184	50	77	11
1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002	402	232	41	108	21
1 January 2003 to 31 December 2003	1,023	509	147	366	1
1 January 2004 to 31 March 2004	469	183	85	201	—
Total	2,455	1,169	344	790	152

⁽²⁰⁾ Data collected by police force area on numbers of ASBOs only.



Table B: Number and percentage of young persons aged 18 to 20 who were prosecuted for breach of their ASBO and subsequently found guilty and sentenced to detention in a Young Offender Institution (YOI), from 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2002⁽²¹⁾

	Number	Percentage
Total proceedings for breach of an ASBO of which:	60	100
Sentenced to detention in YOI	30	50
Total found guilty of breach	57	95

⁽²¹⁾ These figures have been compiled through a manual matching process between ASBO breaches reported on the Home Office Court Proceedings Database and data held on the ASBO database. Breach data for 2003 will be available in late Autumn.
Note:
Figures are based on principal disposal (severest penalty imposed) where more than one breach record exists.

Asylum Seekers/Immigration

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) cases and (b) children under 18 years were covered by the one-off exercise to allow families who applied for asylum to stay, before 2 October 2000, who had at least one dependant currently under 18 years who had been living in the UK since 2 October 2000, and who were not covered by the specified exclusions set out in the Minister of State's letter of 29 October 2003; and (i) how many of those cases and (ii) for how many children under 18 years decisions are outstanding. [186956]

Mr. Browne: An announcement detailing the results of the exercise including the available statistical information will be made when the exercise is completed and all those potentially qualifying applicants have had the opportunity to respond to our queries.

Good progress has been made in considering the cases originally identified. The bulk of these cases have been processed with the majority, where the applicants have responded to our queries, having been decided, We rely on the applicants we contact replying to our queries promptly and those not doing so are being reminded.

Anomalies we removed on 19 August, will result in a number of previously excluded applicants being reconsidered. In addition, we are encouraging applicants who believe that they should qualify to contact the Immigration Nationality Directorate to have their status assessed.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accommodation units the National Asylum Support Service has rented from (a) private landlords and (b) local authorities in North East Lincolnshire for asylum-seekers in each year since 2002; and how many of these are currently empty. [187297]

 
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Mr. Browne: The information is not available in the precise format requested. The number of occupied bed spaces changes from day to day as asylum seekers move through the asylum process.

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions since 1997 on which he has been found by (a) the administrative court, (b) the court of appeal and (c) the House of Lords to have acted unlawfully in immigration, nationality and asylum matters; and what action (i) he and (ii) his Department has taken to remedy the unlawfulness in each case. [186377]

Mr. Browne: This information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Statistics are published by the Home Office on the number of asylum cases going before the administrative court on judicial review, but not on immigration and nationality cases. The asylum statistics exclude cases relating to asylum support (NASS) for the years 2000 and 2001. In addition, they do not indicate whether the
 
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grounds of the challenge were unlawfulness, procedural impropriety or irrationality. It is also not unusual for a challenge to be made on more than one ground.

The information in the following table gives the number of judicial review applications that were made in asylum cases and the outcome of judicial review hearings.

Statistics on the numbers of appeals to the court of appeal and House of Lords are not collected by the Home Office.

All judgments made by the courts are carefully considered, and appropriate action is taken to remedy adverse findings. A successful challenge to certification of an asylum application as clearly unfounded would, for example, normally result in the withdrawal of that certificate.

Data on Home Office actions in response to a successful challenge in the courts are not collected centrally, and could be obtained only by retrieval and examination of individual case files which would be at disproportionate cost.
Asylum appeals Applications for judicial review, and outcomes, excluding dependants⁽²²⁾, 1997 to 2003⁽²³⁾

Number of principal appellants
Applications for permission to apply for judicial review
	Applications	Decisions(24)	of which: granted permission to apply	Percentage of applicants granted permission to apply(25)
1997	1,350	1,250	320	26
1998	1,890	1,220	300	25
1999 Q1.Q2, and Q4(26)	1,790	1,125	395	35
2000(27)	1,920	2,095	555	26
2001(27)	2,210	2,300	290	13
2002	3,075	2,980	260	9
2003(23)	2,170	2,240	235	10

The outcome of judicial review hearings
	Allowed(28)		Dismissed(29)		Withdrawn
	Total	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined	Total	As percentage of total determined
1997	—	—	—	—	—	—
1998	—	—	—	—	—	—
1999 Q1.Q2, and Q4(26)	135	57	25	11	75	32
2000(27)	365	48	300	40	95	12
2001(27)	260	68	60	16	60	16
2002	25	30	60	67	5	3
2003(23)	30	35	55	62	5	3

⁽²²⁾ Figures based on administrative court data. Figures (other than percentages) rounded to the nearest 5.
⁽²³⁾ Provisional figures.
⁽²⁴⁾ Decisions do not relate to applications in any given period.
⁽²⁵⁾ The number of which granted permission to apply as a percentage of decisions.
⁽²⁶⁾ Estimated figures.
⁽²⁷⁾ Figures exclude judicial reviews brought in cases relating to asylum support (NASS).
⁽²⁸⁾ The decision of the respondent (in this case, the Home Office or the immigration appeal tribunal) was quashed. These figures include consent orders where the JR was conceded by the respondent.
⁽²⁹⁾ The decision of the respondent was upheld.

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