Correspondence from UK Border Agency to
the Chair of the Committee
I committed to providing you with a final update
on the remaining legacy cases which had been reviewed but where
there were remaining barriers to conclusion.
As we have already reported to the Committee, the
UK Border Agency completed its review of all cases in the legacy
cohort at the end of March 2011. A total of 500,500 cases were
reviewed as part of the programme and the majority (455,000) had
been fully concluded.
As you know, we established the Case Assurance and
Audit Unit (CMU) to actively manage those 23,000 cases which had
been reviewed but had barriers to conclusion. All these cases
have been decided and communicated to the applicant.
The CMU has now fully concluded 1,500 of those cases.
They have also issued around 3,000 grants which are subject to
information from the applicant in order to complete a final security
check. Please see the table at Appendix A.
The Agency is actively managing around 18,000 cases
which have been caseworked to the furthest possible point but
barriers to their removal remain, such as ongoing litigation,
impending prosecution, incomplete legal or criminal proceedings,
non-compliance or because they are from difficult to remove countries.
These cases are being actively caseworked and will be concluded
when those barriers have been lifted.
The information provided here is subject to the same
qualifications I and Lin Homer have set out to the Committee previously
regarding data quality.
12 September 2011
Appendix A
| Total number of reviewed cases in the legacy cohort
| 500,500 |
| Total concluded | 479,000 |
| Of which: | |
| Grants | 172,000 (36%) |
| Removals | 37,500 (8%) |
| Other
(duplicates, errors or controlled archive)
| 268,000 (56%)
Including 98,000 in the controlled archive.
A further 500 will be added if not traced within the next 6 months.
|
| Grants subject to final security check |
3,000 |
| Remaining barriers to conclusion | 18,000
|
Figures may not sum due to rounding to the nearest 500.
|
