Undocumented Migrants

(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to collect data on the ethnicity or race and religion of people recorded as encountered in immigration enforcement operations.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

The Government has no plans to routinely collect data on the ethnicity, race or religion of people encountered on Immigration Enforcement operations. This data is not recorded as it is not relevant to the determination of a person’s immigration status at that point.

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