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Questions for Written Answer: Late Answers
Lord Tebbit asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 23 April (WA 306—7), whether any of the information requested in the Written Question tabled on 24 January by Baroness Valentine was not available (a) at that time, and (b) by 7 February. [HL3474]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): The information requested in the Written Question tabled on 24 January, pertaining to the number of immigration officers employed at Heathrow Airport on 1 January 2006 and 16 October 2007, was available on 24 January 2008 and 7 February 2008 but was compiled from locally held management information and did not constitute part of national statistics.
This information is held on a complex database and significant work was required to extract and validate the data before the figures could be placed in the public domain.
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