Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, how many referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service for immigration offences in the last three years were not prosecuted on evidential grounds.

The CPS does not hold the data requested. To establish whether suspects on cases where immigration offences were considered by reviewing lawyers at pre-charge stage, where then a subsequent no prosecution decision on evidential grounds was made in the last three years, would require a manual review of case files and this would be at disproportionate cost.