§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people are currently employed in the immigration control sections of his Department; of these how many can interview an immigrant in each of the 15 languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution, namely Assamese, Bengali, Gujerati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayatam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, respectively;
(2) how many people are currently employed in the immigration control sections of his Department; and of these how many can interview an immigrant in Swahili, Malay and Chinese, respectively.
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§ Dr. SummerskillThe number of staff currently employed in the Immigration Service, together with staff engaged on immigration work at headquarters is 2,362 full time and 321 part time. Of these the number in the Immigration Service who can interview an immigrant in each of the following languages is:
Assamese Nil Bengali 4 Gujerati 2 Hindi 21 Kannada Nil Kashmiri Nil Malayatam Nil Marathi 2 Swahili 4 Malay 2 Chinese (Cantonese) Nil Oriya Nil Punjabi 11 Sanskrit Nil Sindhi Nil Tamil 1 Telugu Nil Urdu 40 Language statistics for the staff at headquarters are not at present available but my Department will let the hon. Member have them shortly.