Increase in percentage of successful appeals

The tables below are derived from Home Office figures for asylum applications and appeals
between 1997 and 2002.

Highlighted in yellow are the lines showing the numbers and percentages of successful appeals.
A percentage increase from 5.7% in 1997 to 21.6% in 2002 is truly alarming and serious questions
need to be asked about the reasons for this almost fourfold increase in the success rate at the appeal stage.