§ MR. LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how many aliens in England are now serving terms of imprisonment whose sentences exceeded three months, and how many of these prisoners came to this country as immigrants.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave to a Question asked on the 12th of April † last, which was circulated with the Votes on the 13th; and to the figures in Volume 3 of the Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration. A special Return showing how many aliens are now serving terms of
† See (4) Debates, cxliv., 1387.224 over three months' imprisonment, such as the hon. Member suggests, would involve a great deal of additional labour to the prison officers, and the result would be of less value than the figures we already possess. The last part of the Question could not in any case be answered. The prison authorities can furnish the number of persons of alien birth, but they cannot supply information as to how they entered this country.