UK Immigration Officials

HC Deb 04 February 2004 vol 417 cc993-4W

Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK immigration officials were in post at(a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Luton and (e) City airport on 1 January in each of the last six years. [148436]

Beverley Hughes

[holding answer 19 January 2004]: The table sets out the number of full-time equivalent immigration officials employed at the airports listed, as at 1 January for the last six years.

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Heathrow	1—	632.7	588.7	642.4	721.6	682.6
Gatwick	1—	265	258.6	283.6	292.5	278.2
Stansted	48.6	47.7	44.9	48.4	54.6	63.8
Luton	1—	24	24	28	28	28
London City	13	13	11	12	14	15
1 1999 = Incomplete records available for Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton.

As at 2 January 2004, the UK Immigration Service had a further 103 Immigration Officers who had confirmed places on training courses taking place in January, February and March who were to be posted to either Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted airports.