To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) were temporarily transferred to work on issues outside those covered by the IND between 8 and 12 January. (111247)

There were no specific temporary transfers of members of the Immigration Nationality Directorate (IND) staff to non-IND work between 8 and 12 January. Records show that as at 31 January, 371 members of IND’s staff were on longer term loans from IND to other Government Departments and 75 on secondment to organisations outside the civil service.