Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2018 to Question 148604 on Immigration: Enforcement, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing information on the number of (a) Members of Parliament and (b) staff working for Members of Parliament that communicated on immigration enforcement hotlines during 2017; and which political parties they belonged to.

We are now able to obtain the information within the cost limit. Of the 73 referrals from MPs received in 2017 34 were received from Conservative members, 32 from Labour, 1 from the Democratic Unionist Party and 1 from the Liberal Democrats. After closer scrutiny five reports were deemed not to have come from Members of Parliament.