Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department work on policy relating to immigration as of 4 March 2024.

Migration and Borders Group (MBG) provides the immigration policy advice for the Home Office. The most recent published data for the group as a whole in the Home Office Accounts for 2022-23 show 910 full time equivalent (FTE) working in MBG. Not all of those FTE are specifically part of the policy profession but they will contribute to the development of Home Office immigration policy. Further information will be available in the Home Office 2023-24 accounts, which will be published shortly.