Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of running (a) the Case Resolution Directorate, (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit and (c) the Older Live Cases Unit in each year of those bodies' operations.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The operational costs of running the Case Resolution Directorate (excluding
enforcement costs, detention and removal escort costs or asylum and immigration
tribunal costs) was approximately £32 million per year. The costs are inclusive
of an outsourced administrative function in 2009-2011. Support costs for
applicants were accounted for separately for this period.
The total running costs of the Case Assurance and Audit Unit was £27.4 million
(2011/ 2012) and £19. 5million (2012/ 2013). The total running costs of the Older Live
Cases Unit was £7.8 million (2013/ 2014). The Older Live Cases Unit budget spend to
date for 2014/ 2015 is £1.87 million. Since setting up the Case Resolution Directorate,
operational running costs have decreased year on year.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of renaming (a) the Case Resolution Directorate in 2011 and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in 2013.
Answered by Karen Bradley
It is not possible to answer the question, as information is not held in the
appropriate format and to extract the data would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.
Answered by Karen Bradley
There were 208 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on
OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, this was equal to 62.7% of the overall
staff at the time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the
proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of
an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time staff are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit.
Answered by Karen Bradley
There were 332 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff employed by OLCU at the end of
Q1 2014. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the proportion of
full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent
full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence; and what proportion of the overall staff of such bodies were contract or temporary employees.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 350 temporary staff
during the summer 2011. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many
contract/ temporary employees were employed for each year that CRD was in
existence.
The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. It is not
possible to break this down by how many were contract/temporary employees or
employed full time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the
proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of
an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 1300 caseworkers in
40 regional teams during its existence. It is not possible to provide a
breakdown by each year that CRD was in existence.
The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. FTE means that
part time employees are counted by the proportion of full time hours they work,
so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full time colleague would
count as 0.5 FTE.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of the conversion of HM Prison The Verne into an immigration removal centre.
Answered by Karen Bradley
£5.4 million has been spent to date on the conversion of HM Prison The Verne into an Immigration Removal Centre.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration appeal hearings lost by the Government her Department failed to send a presenting officer in each of the last four years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
I will write to the Rt Hon Member.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to how many immigration appeal hearings the Home Office failed to send a presenting officer in each of the last four years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
I will write to the Rt Hon. Member.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time spent in prison awaiting deportation for those foreign national prisoners beyond the end of their sentence was in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The average length of time Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) were held in
prison beyond the end of their sentence pending deportation, as of 31 December
2013 is 234 calendar days. This is the mean average, calculated using the table
shown below which was provided in response to PQ 195817.
It should be noted that the small number of FNOs who fall in the 24-60 and 60+
months categories (45 individuals out of 850) heavily skew the mean. By way of
context, the modal average length of time in prison for the same cases is 32
days.
[INSERT PQ TABLE HERE]
1. All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are
therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been
quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
2. Figures relate to main applicants only.
3. Figures relate to FNO cases who met the criteria for deportation only.
4. Figures rounded to the nearest 5 ( - = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the
totals shown because of independent rounding.
5. Data is a snapshot of individuals detained in prison on 31 December 2013.
We make every effort to ensure that a person's removal by deportation
coincides, as far as possible, with his/her release from prison on completion
of sentence. Where a detainee refuses to cooperate with the removal or
deportation process, detention may be prolonged.
The Immigration Bill will have a significant impact on the ability of FNOs to
delay removal by mounting legal challenges whilst in the UK. The current
appeals system means that 17 different types of decision can be appealed. The
Immigration Bill will simplify the appeals system and mean that appeals can
only be brought where the Home Office has refused a protection (asylum or
humanitarian protection) claim, a human rights claim or a claim based on EU
free movement rights. It will also give us the power to certify that where
deportation will not cause serious irreversible harm, the appeal will be heard
after the FNO has left the country.