To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officials in his Department (a) have been suspended, (b) have been dismissed and (c) have had their responsibilities significantly changed in each of the last three months. (77076)

The data available in respect of (a) and (b) are set out in the following table. Data for (c) could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Figures are as of 14 June 2006 and include staff in the central Home Office and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

The figures for HMPS could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.