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Asylum

Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department at which point of the asylum process her Department considers a decision on an asylum claim to be final. [148531]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 9 July 2007]: A decision on an asylum claim is final when it has been served. All asylum decisions can be reviewed by the courts on appeal or judicial review.

Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her Department considers an individual who has made a fresh asylum claim to be an asylum seeker with an active case. [148532]


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Mr. Byrne [holding answer 9 July 2007]: Where an individual's original asylum claim has been refused, and they provide the Secretary of State with further submissions on that claim, there are four possible outcomes. The Border and Immigration Agency may:

Nobody will be removed before their further submissions have been categorised into one of the above outcomes. To this extent, their case is still ‘active’. A failed asylum seeker does not, however, regain asylum seeker ‘status’ (e.g. for the purposes of support) just because they have put in further submissions. They remain a failed asylum seeker until such time as the Border and Immigration Agency, or the courts, find their further submissions to be significant.

Asylum: Assisted Voluntary Return Schemes

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her projection is of the numbers who will take assisted voluntary return packages to their home country in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. [148358]

Mr. Byrne: Projected numbers of those who will take assisted voluntary return packages to their home county in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 are not available.

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people returned to their home country under the assisted voluntary return system in (a) 2006, (b) 2005 and (c) 2004. [148359]

Mr. Byrne: Information on removals is published annually. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

Asylum: Finance

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments have been made to each local authority from the (a) Challenge Fund for Refugees and (b) Purposeful Activities for Asylum Seekers Fund in each year since these funds were established. [146001]

Mr. Byrne: The information is shown in the following tables.


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Payments made to local authorities from the challenge fund
£
Local authority 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Manchester City Council

73,163.00

69,079.00

77,650.00

Kent County Council

13,984.00

14,404.00

North Tyneside Council

26,796.00

Newcastle City Council

31,800.00

Liverpool City Council

64,714.00

Cardiff City Council

51,272.00

48,068.00

Leicestershire City Council

21,500.00

36,158.00

Northamptonshire County Council

28,000.00

Stoke on Trent City Council

34,050.00

Portsmouth City Council

33,095.00

Middlesbrough Council

12,320.00

London Borough of Brent

39,500.00

Total

73,163.00

109,859.00

162,190.00

209,268.00

69,253.00

51,820.00


Payments made to local authorities from the purposeful activities for asylum seekers fund
£
Local authority 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Leicestershire County Council

2,440.00

2,850.00

27,550.00

Nottingham City Council

3,537.00

7,207.00

35,000.00

7,384.00

London Borough of Islington

3,582.00

3,475.00

2,778.00

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

5,265.00

5,260.00

London Borough of Greenwich

27,185.00

London Borough of Lewisham

20,000.00

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

5,380.00

London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

4,009.00

12,636.40

Middlesbrough Council

3,500.00

Newcastle City Council

3,300.00

24,756.00

24,880.00

South Tyneside Council

1,350.00

Gateshead Council

12,000.00

Manchester City Council

11,350.00

10,000.00

Stoke on Trent City Council

4,000.00

8,189.80

Rotherham Borough Council

7,000.00

7,260.00

Leeds City Council

21,582.00

Wakefield Council

14,534.00

West Berkshire Council

8,500.00

Newport City Council

6,230.00

Birmingham City Council

575.00

Solihull Council

968.00

Sheffield City Council

36,854.00

Coventry City Council

19,582.00

North Tyneside Council

10,440.00

9,590.00

Cambridgeshire County Council

28,900.00

Total

160,176.00

119,311.40

114,272.00

28,219.80

28,900.00


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