Member

Amendment 157 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Davies of Gower and Lord Cameron of Lochiel, seeks to place reporting requirements on the Secretary of State to publish a statement setting a date on which appeals will be heard within the 24-week framework and then further to report on the number of cases subject to Clauses 46 and 47 that have not been determined within 24 weeks. If I am honest, that would require a considerable amount of detailed work between the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice operationalising this measure, when we are committed to implementing the new framework in the shortest possible time. There is a process in place for the MoJ to collect and publish tribunal data on a quarterly basis, including the timeliness of appeals, and the amendment would, therefore, I say with respect, set unnecessary frameworks which would be limited to fixed points in time and would not assist the speedy dealing with this matter in an efficient way.