Visits to religious premises for immigration enforcement purposes
Dear Home Office,
Please consider this request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Guidance by the Home Office in relation to Enforcement Visits, published on 19 January 2017 and available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk..., makes reference to Visits to Religious Premises.
The guidance notes that such visits can only be undertaken with express authorisation from a deputy director at G6 level. I would like to know how many requests for authorisation to carry out a visit to religious premises were submitted each year from 2012 to 2017 inclusive, and how many such visits were approved and carried out.
Many thanks for your kind cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
Mary Atkinson
Dear Ms Atkinson,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 53612). We will aim to
send you a full response by 05/06/2019 which is twenty working days from
the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
N McKenzie
Home Office
Dear Ms Atkinson,
Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information Act
enquiry.
Kind regards
Home Office
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat.
Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team
Sandford House
West Midlands
Dear Ms Atkinson,
I must apologies for our error. The FOI referrence number should read
53612
Kind regards
Home Office
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat.
Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team
Sandford House
West Midlands
From: IE PQs, FOIs and Correspondence
Sent: 28 May 2019 14:16
To: '[FOI #574622 email]'
Subject: Your Freedom of Information request - 53621
Dear Ms Atkinson,
Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information Act
enquiry.
Kind regards
Home Office
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat.
Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team
Sandford House
West Midlands
Dear IE PQs, FOIs and Correspondence,
Sincere thanks for your recent communication, in which you request clarification as to whether I am requesting either (a) immigration enforcement operations taking place at religious premises and/or (b) community
engagement visits undertaken by immigration enforcement officers where we are invited to attend religious premises.
To clarify, I would be grateful if you could supply separate figures for each of those categories, by year for each year from 2008 to 2018 inclusive. The original request stated a request for annual figures from 2012 to 2017 inclusive, but this was an error for which I apologise. I would be very grateful if you could supply figures for both type of visit for the period stated in this request.
Yours faithfully,
Mary Atkinson
Ms Atkinson,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 53881). We will aim to send you a full response by 25/06/2019 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
P. Zebedee
FOI Requests
Home Office
Dear Ms Atkinson,
Please find attached a response to your recent Freedom of Information Act
enquiry.
Kind regards
Home Office
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat.
Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team
Sandford House
West Midlands
Ms Atkinson,
Please see the attached response to your FOI request.
Regards
Immigration Enforcement Secretariat
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