Asylum
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Tony Baldry (Banbury, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of applications for refugee status made over (a) 10 and (b) five years ago are still waiting to be resolved by the UK Border Agency.
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (the North West), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour)
The information requested is not reported on by the case resolution directorate and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost through the examination of individual case files. However, the UK Border Agency has made good progress in concluding the estimated 400,000 to 450,000 electronic and paper records in the asylum backlog. The total conclusions now stand at over 220,000 cases concluded to end of September 2009 as reported by Lin Homer to the Home Affairs Select Committee on