Introduction
1. This is an appeal by the Secretary of State for the Home Department against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal Judge promulgated on 22 December 2014 in respect of an appeal made by VV against a decision to make a deportation order under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (“ the 2006 Regulations ”) . For convenienc e we will continue to refer to the respective parties as Appellant and Respondent as in the Tribunal below. We are satisfied that an anonymity direction should be made as in the First Tier Tribunal. 2. The Appellant was born on 11 August 1972. He is a national of Lithuania . He claimed to have first entered the UK on 5 March 2005 in order to work. He provided evid ence that he had exercised his T reaty rights as an EEA national. On 8 August 2013 he was convicted of a sexual assault on a female and on 15 September 2013 he was sentenced in the Crown Court to fifteen months’ imp risonment. I n the usual way he was required to be registered on the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years and a restriction order was imposed for a period of five years. There was no appeal against conviction or sentence. 3. On 28 October 2013 the Appellant was served with a liability to deportation notice and the Secretary of State’s deportation order followed in due course. In this case the Respondent accepts that the Appellant has acquired a permanent right of residence pursuant to r egulation 15 of the 2006 Regulations. As a consequence the parties and the judge in the First-tier Tribunal proceeded on the basis that it was necessary for the Tribunal to consider whether the “ relevant decision ” , that is to say the decision to make the deportation order , was justified on “serious grounds of public policy or public security”.