§ Mr. John Carlisleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many civil servants deal with queries about immigration;
(2) how many are employed in his Department on immigration matters.
§ Mr. RaisonI have information only for my own Department. On 1 November, 2,796 staff were in post in the immigration and nationality department of the Home Office, including the immigration service
798WThe other figures requested are published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 6.2 of the volume for 1975, Cmnd 6566, and table 3.7 of the volume for 1978—Cmnd. 7670.
§ Mr. Woolmerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the years 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978, what was the number of indictable offences in England and Wales in which air weapons were used and in which (a) fatal, (b) serious or (c) slight personal injury was caused, classified by age of offender, namely those under 17 years, those aged 17 years and under 21 years, those aged over 21 years, and those where age was not known.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe information requested for 1975 and 1976 is published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 6.2 of the volume for 1975, Cmnd 6566, and tables 9.3 of the volume for 1976, Cmnd. 6909. Figures for 1977 and 1978 are given in the following table.
but excluding staff dealing solely with nationality maters. Most of these staff deal with immigration queries of one kind or another, as do staff in ministerial private offices not included in the above figure.