Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many staff were employed on immigration matters on 1 April in (1) 2005, (2) 2010, and (3) 2015.

The Home Office deploys officials on a range of work that could, directly and indirectly, be considered immigration matters. 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.

UK Border Agency figures are published in the Resource Accounts 2009-10 at Table 6 on page 14 of Annex A on gov.uk at - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf

From June 2014 Immigration Enforcement and UK Visas & Immigration figures are published quarterly on gov.uk - https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Border+and+immigration+cross+cutting+data