HC Deb 14 February 1978 vol 944 c103W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take action to ensure that all people convicted of attacks upon the person, are, on completion of their prison sentences, deported to their countries of birth.

Dr. Summerskill

Each case is considered in the light of the particular circumstances. Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are not liable to deportation if they were ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on 1st January 1973 and have been so resident for the five years preceding a decision to deport.