§ 54 and 55. Mr. Petherickasked the Home Secretary (1) whether it is intended to carry out the recommendation for the deportation of Jacob Panitz, recently convicted at Canterbury of assaults upon a magistrate and a police officer;
(2) how many times Jacob Panitz, recently convicted at Canterbury for assault, has previously been convicted; whether he has been recommended for deportation; and why he has not been deported?
§ The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)This man has numerous previous convictions, but it is impossible to deport him because there is no country of which he has any claim to be a national. He was born in a place which is now part of Lithuania, but he came to the United Kingdom as a child and never acquired Lithuanian nationality.