Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Keith Vaz
Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints were made after raids by immigration enforcement officers in each year since 2008; and for what reasons each such complaint was made.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
holding answer
Information relating to complaints that are made after raids by Immigration Enforcement officers is not centrally recorded. This information can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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