HC Deb 06 May 2003 vol 404 cc605-6W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his Answer of 12 March 2003,Official Report, column 310W, on work permits, how many individuals were granted a discretionary extension of stay for the purpose of work permit employment in the last two years where that individual did not meet the normal criteria. [109605]

Beverley Hughes

It is not possible to extract from the information recorded on the management systems used by Work Permits (UK) the figure showing the number of individuals who were granted a discretionary extension of stay for the purpose of work permit employment, where the individual did not meet the normal criteria.