§ MR. THORNE (West Ham, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many aliens were excluded last year under the Aliens Act of 1905, and at what cost.
§ MR. GLADSTONEFour hundred and ninety-three aliens were refused leave to land in 1906. The actual cost of such refusals cannot be given, but the whole of the operations of the Act were covered, as I stated on 14th February last in answer to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, by the sum of £11,800.This figure of 493 only relates to exclusion by immigration authorities, and has no reference to the working of 76 the Act as regards returned transmigrants and expulsions.