Joint PSA target with the Home Office: To grant or remove 90 per cent. of asylum claimants within six months by the end of 2011
46 per cent. of new applications received in June 2007 were concluded within six months by the end of December 2007
Milestone: 40 per cent. of new asylum claimants by December 2007
2007-08(1)
Receipt in AIT to promulgation by Immigration Judge:
Asylum—75 per cent. in six weeks
Asylum—61 per cent. in six weeks
Managed Migration (In Country Immigration)—75 per cent. in eight weeks
Managed Migration—66 per cent. in eight weeks
Entry Clearance (Out of Country Immigration)—75 per cent. within 10 weeks of receipt of respondent’s bundle
Entry Clearance—49 per cent. in 10 weeks of receipt of respondent’s bundle
Family Visit Visa—75 per cent. within 10 weeks of receipt of respondent’s bundle
Family Visit Visas—66 per cent. in 10 weeks of receipt of respondent’s bundle
2006-07
Joint PSA target with the Home Office: To grant or remove 90 per cent. of asylum claimants within six months by the end of 2011
38 per cent. of new applications received in September 2006 were concluded within six months
Milestone: 35 per cent. of new asylum claimants by April 2007
2005-06
Joint PSA target with the Home Office: 75 per cent. of substantive asylum applications including the final appeal decided within six months
74 per cent. of applications received in 2005-06 had a final decision up to and including appeal, within six months
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2004-05
Joint PSA target with the Home Office: 65 per cent. of substantive asylum applications including the final appeal decided within six months
67 per cent. of substantive applications in 2004-05 had a final decision up to and including appeal at the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, within six months
2004-05
75 per cent. of asylum cases, covered by the PSA, to be decided by adjudicators within 12 weeks from receipt
77 per cent. decided within 12 weeks of receipt
2003-04
Joint PSA target with the Home Office: 60 per cent. of substantive asylum applications including final appeal decided within six months
64 per cent. of substantive applications in 2003-04 had a final decision up to and including appeals at the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, within six months
(1) Key Performance Indicators were introduced in April 2007 to measure the waiting times for all main AIT case types.
Jo Swinson:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average processing time has been for appeals to asylum and immigration tribunals in each of the last five years. [224108]
Mr. Wills:
I have been asked to reply.
The average processing times for appeals to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (prior to April 2005 the Immigration Appellate Authority) in each of the last five years is available and the information is shown as follows.
Case type( 1)
Average waiting time from receipt in the IAA/AIT to promulgation by an Adjudicator/Immigration Judge( 2 ) (weeks)
2007-08
Asylum
8
Managed Migration (In Country Immigration)
10
Entry Clearance (Out of Country Immigration)
26
Family Visit Visas
20
2006-07
Asylum
9
Managed Migration (In Country Immigration)
10
Entry Clearance (Out of Country Immigration)
30
Family Visit Visas
30
2005-06(3)
Asylum
15
Managed Migration (In Country Immigration)
10
Entry Clearance (Out of Country Immigration)
17
Family Visit Visas
22
2004-05
Asylum
17
Immigration
12
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Family Visit Visas
10
2003-04
Asylum
17
Immigration
13
Family Visit Visas
8
(1 )Separate information on In Country and Out of Country Immigration appeals is not available prior to April 2005. (2) Average waiting time information is taken from reports produced for internal use by the IAA and AIT from their databases. It is not subject to the same quality checks as performance targets and other published data. (3) Data for 2005-06 taken from the AIT database ARIA, and covers from commencement of AIT on 4April 2005.
Parking Offences: Fixed Penalties
Mr. Sanders:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the relationship between the level of penalty imposed for parking offences and the incidence of such offences. [224056]
Mr. Tom Harris:
I have been asked to reply.
Local authorities in England with the power to enforce parking on the street and in local authority owned car parks may issue penalty charge notices to vehicles parked in contravention of the regulations. The primary purpose of a penalty charge is to encourage compliance with parking regulations and authorities are advised to adopt the lowest charge level consistent with a high level of public acceptability and compliance. Authorities must set levels that comply with the guidelines of the Mayor (in London) and the Secretary of State (outside London). A range of factors may influence the incidence of parking contraventions in particular areas. The Department for Transport has not commissioned or evaluated specific research on this particular factor.
Police: Ethnic Groups
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) police community support officers and (b) regular police officers fall into each ethnic category in each police force area. [219157]
Mr. McNulty:
The available data are given in the following tables.
Table 1: Police community support officer ethnicity( 1) by police force area as at 31 March 2007
Percentage
Police force
White
Mixed
Black or Black British
Asian or Asian British
Chinese or Other ethnic group
Not stated
Avon and Somerset
96
1
1
1
1
1
Bedfordshire
89
4
1
6
0
0
Cambridgeshire
93
2
1
3
0
1
Cheshire
100
0
0
0
0
0
Cleveland
98
0
0
2
0
0
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Cumbria
99
1
0
0
0
0
Derbyshire
96
1
1
2
0
0
Devon and Cornwall
67
0
0
0
1
31
Dorset
98
1
0
2
0
0
Durham
99
1
0
1
0
0
Essex
95
1
1
1
0
2
Gloucestershire
87
2
0
2
1
8
Greater Manchester
96
0
1
3
0
0
Hampshire
98
0
0
0
0
1
Hertfordshire
95
0
1
2
0
2
Humberside
99
1
1
0
0
0
Kent
96
1
0
1
1
0
Lancashire
98
1
0
1
0
1
Leicestershire
90
0
0
9
0
0
Lincolnshire
99
0
1
0
0
0
London, City of
83
8
3
6
0
0
Merseyside
95
4
0
2
0
0
Metropolitan Police
67
4
11
12
4
1
Norfolk
97
0
1
1
1
0
Northamptonshire
93
4
2
1
0
0
Northumbria
98
1
0
0
0
0
North Yorkshire
99
0
1
0
0
0
Nottinghamshire
96
1
0
3
0
0
South Yorkshire
95
0
3
1
0
0
Staffordshire
96
1
0
2
0
0
Suffolk
99
1
0
0
0
0
Surrey
93
0
1
3
0
2
Sussex
95
1
0
0
1
3
Thames Valley
93
2
0
4
0
0
Warwickshire
94
0
1
4
0
1
West Mercia
93
1
0
1
0
5
West Midlands
85
2
2
9
0
1
West Yorkshire
95
0
1
4
0
0
Wiltshire
98
1
1
0
0
0
Dyfed-Powys
99
0
1
0
0
0
Gwent
97
0
1
2
0
0
North Wales
96
1
0
1
0
2
South Wales
98
0
0
1
0
1
(1 )Percentage figures based on full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.
