§ Earl Attleeasked Her Majesty's Government:
What proportion of customer-facing Immigration Service officials at:
are of Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin. [HL2806]222WA
- (a) Heathrow Airport;
- (b) Gatwick Airport; and
- (c) Waterloo International Station
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Rooker)Central personnel records do not distinguish between "customer-facing" Immigration Service officials and Immigration Service staff in general.
The percentages given are of those staff whose ethnic origin is centrally recorded. However, ethnicity is recorded on a voluntary basis and so these statistics refer only to those staff who answered the question on ethnicity in a staff survey conducted in 2000 and do not cover all Immigration Service personnel.
223WAThe proportion of Immigration Service staff of Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin is as follows:
Afro-Caribbean Asian Heathrow Airport 1.90% 21.87% Gatwick Airport 2.68% 7.14% Waterloo International 1.85% 12.04%