§ Miss Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the introduction of a system of formal or informal discovery of the documentary evidence held by the Home Office in respect of people who it is alleged are illegal entrants, with a view to accelerating the disposal of the cases 82W of people detained in prison under his administrative powers.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesI could not agree to make Home Office documents relating to individuals detained as illegal entrants available to them or their representatives; but it is already the practice to provide detainees and their representatives with information as to the grounds on which they are regarded as having entered the country illegally.