Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time caseworkers were working on immigration in her Department in each year since 2010.

The Home Office deploys officials on a range of work that could, directly and indirectly, be considered casework on immigration matters. Figures on the number of full-time caseworkers is not recorded centrally on the Department’s HR systems. Operational immigration activity includes work undertaken by UK Border Agency in 2010 and more recently by UK Visas and Immigration, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement in 2015.