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 of the restaurants raided in 2012 by enforcement officers primarily sold (a) Indian, (b) Italian, (c) Chinese, (d) British and (e) other food.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
holding answer
Records indicate that between January and December 2012, the Home Office carried out 2,659 enforcement visits to premises identified as restaurants.
The Home Office does not collate information centrally on the type of restaurant visited, nor the type of food sold at the premises.
Note:
All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
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