§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSON (Northumberland, Tyneside)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state how many aliens have been refused admission at British ports since 1st January; and for what reasons.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The figures for February are not yet available. During January, leave to land was withheld in the case of 202 alien immigrants. In 172 cases the reason was lack of means; in thirty, medical grounds. Appeals were made to immigration boards as regards 199 immigrants; and in the result eighty-nine immigrants, seventy-six on account of lack of means and thirteen on medical grounds, did not receive leave to land.