Asylum Seekers
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 17 January 2007
Piara S Khabra (Ealing, Southall, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what targets are set by his Department for reaching decisions on new applications for people whose claims had been initially unsuccessful and who had exhausted their appeal rights.
Liam Byrne (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Labour)
When a failed asylum seeker who has exhausted his appeal rights submits further representations, it is the task of the caseworker to decide whether those representations amount to a fresh claim.
We do not set specific targets for reaching decisions on these claims as they represent a very small number of cases. It is the aim of IND to consider and make decisions on applications within a reasonable time scale.