HC Deb 31 January 2000 vol 343 cc433-4W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases the Immigration and Nationality Directorate prepared for the prosecution of facilitators in(a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99 and (c) 1999–2000 to date. [107781]

Mrs. Roche

Since April 1999, the Immigration Service has prepared 180 cases against facilitators and passed them to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration of prosecution. Information of this type was not recorded centrally prior to that date.