Immigration: Appeals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals heard at the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) were on the grounds that removal of the appellant from the UK was unlawful under the Human Rights Act 1998 in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many of those appeals were successful in each of those months.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
The number of human rights appeals (those lodged on human rights grounds) determined by the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal and the number of those that were successful and allowed by the Tribunal can be found in the following table:
Table 1. First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Number of appeals determined at hearing or on paper for Human Rights Appeals, April 2024 to March 2025(1)
Year | Month | Determined at hearings / papers | Allowed/Granted |
2024 | April | 798 | 402 |
2024 | May | 778 | 414 |
2024 | June | 722 | 352 |
2024 | July | 727 | 383 |
2024 | August | 596 | 306 |
2024 | September | 617 | 298 |
2024 | October | 710 | 375 |
2024 | November | 522 | 240 |
2024 | December | 477 | 234 |
2025 | January | 491 | 249 |
2025 | February | 550 | 278 |
2025 | March | 592 | 259 |
The table shows the latest 12 months of available data. Published statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2025.
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