To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many equality impact assessments her Department produced in each year since 2006.

The Home Office considers equality issues in exercising its functions, to comply with equality legislation and to ensure it understands how its activities will affect different people. It provides information about this consideration in various ways. In the specified period since 2006, this information was sometimes published in the form of an equality impact assessment. Information about the number of such documents published by the Home Office is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.