To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when a reply will be sent to the hon. Member for West Worcestershire’s letter to the Minister of State, dated 27 November 2007, on behalf of a constituent about the deportation of asylum seekers to Uzbekistan. (178023)

[holding answer 14 January 2008]: The chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency responded to the hon. Member for West Worcestershire’s letter on 11 January 2008.