Written Question·Home Office·UIN 70280

Prisons: Immigration Officers

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Pete Wishart

Scottish National PartyPerth and Kinross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits by Immigration Officers have taken place in each Scottish prison in each year since 2015.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office does not hold central data on the number of visits conducted by immigration officers in UK prisons. However, as of 29 August 2025, there were 77 Immigration Officers employed by Foreign National Offender Returns Command. These officers are...

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