Tier1 General Initial Application verification timelines

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Dear Sir/Madam,
Can you please provide me with the following data with regards to In-country Tier1 General Initial(switching) Applications.

1. How many In-country Tier1 General Initial applications were received between 1st Feb 2011 and 06th April 2011 ?

2. How many of these were processed within 4 months of receiving the application.

3. How many of these were decided before 31st Dec 2011.

4. How many of these are still not decided ?

5. How many of these have been passed to the Verification team ?

6. Of the Applications that are still not decided, what is the longest and shortest an application has been pending with the verification team

7. What is the expected turn around time of the verification team/department ?

8. What does the caseworker do if the verification team doesn't turn around in the expected turn around time ?

9. Will anybody ever chase up the verification team if they take more than 6 months to turn around ?

10. As per the UKBA website, The contact centres cannot give an update about the progress of an application if the application has been submitted in the last 6 months. Why is it then that even when the application has been submitted more than 12 months ago, the contact centres are not able to give any useful information beyond the usual "Your application has not yet been decided. Please continue to wait". Everyone knows that the application has not yet been decided. That's why someone calls them to find out what happened. But they are simply not able to give any useful information.
Why is this ? How long is one supposed to wait ?

Yours faithfully,
Hari B