§ Tony BaldryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits were awarded to persons from(a) India, (b) South Africa, (c) Bangladesh and (d) Jamaica recruited to UK police forces in the last five years. [62633]
§ Beverley HughesThe number of work permits issued to United Kingdom police forces are listed in the table.
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 India 0 0 0 0 0 2 South Africa 0 0 0 1 0 0 Bangladesh 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 1 0 2 None of these were for non-European economic area nationals to be employed as a police officer. The occupations in question were an intelligence analyst and two analyst programmers.