Immigration

(asked on 4th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the current backlog is of cases awaiting a first tier immigration tribunal hearing.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

The number of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) that have either not had a final hearing or been resolved prior to hearing, as at 31 March 2020, is 17,661, a reduction of 4,475 appeals from the same period in 2019.

Published statistics can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2019 and

www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information.

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