Asylum and Immigration: Appeals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many asylum and immigration appeal hearings in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) at which the Secretary of State for the Home Department did not appear and was not legally represented was the appeal was subsequently allowed, in each financial year from 2021-22 to the most recent financial year for which data is held.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
Available data in relation to the number of appeals listed in FtTIAC for financial years 2021/22 – 2024/25 is set out in the table below. This data is based on cases recorded on ARIA, the legacy case management system. Since 2019 the Tribunal has been transitioning to a new case management system, CCD. Work is ongoing to amalgamate data from the legacy and new systems, but the data engineering and validation is not yet complete, so data covering all cases is not currently held centrally and available for reporting and analysis. The rollout of CCD means that a falling proportion of cases are now held on ARIA. During FY 2024/25 it is estimated to include only around 10% of these cases. Therefore, caution should be taken when making comparisons between years.
Table 1. First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Hearings listed for the period 2021-20251 | |||
Year | Substantive Hearings | ||
2021/22 | 24,411 | ||
2022/23 | 13,877 | ||
2023/24 | 9,369 | ||
2024/25 | 6,437 | ||
*ARIA data
The information requested on hearings where the Home Department did not appear and was not legally represented is not held centrally.
The information requested on hearings where the Home Department did not appear and was not legally represented which was then subsequently allowed, is not held centrally.
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