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.
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.