HC Deb 17 February 1981 vol 999 cc79-80W
Mr. Soley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the prison population detained under Immigration Act powers by prison department establishment and country of origin at the latest convenient date for those who were (a) alleged illegal entrants, (b) recommended for deportation by the courts without custodial sentence, (c) recommended for deportation and custodial sentence discharged, (d) under section 3(5)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971, and (e) under section 3(5)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971.

Mr. Raison

On 12 February 1981 the information was as follows:

Table 1
Prison Department Establishment (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
England and Wales
Ashford 37 15 17 14 3
Bedford 4 2 1
Birmingham 4 2 1
Brockhill 1
Canterbury 3
Cardiff 2
Dorchester 1
Exeter 2 1
Holloway 3 2 1
Leeds 1 4 1
Leicester 1 1
Lewes 1
Maidstone 1
Manchester 1 1
Oxford 1
Pentonville 5
Risley 4
Swansea 1
Verne 1
Wandsworth 1
Winchester 1 1 1
Wormwood Scrubs 1
Police Cells* 8 1 2 2
56 40 35 20 7
Northern Ireland
PrisonBelfast 1
Scotland
Barlinnie 1
* These would be detained in prison but for the industrial dispute.

Table 2
Country of origin (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
England and Wales
Algeria 1 2 1
Bangladesh 2 2

Country of origin (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
Colombia 1 1 1
Cyprus 1 1
Egypt 2 2 2
Federal Republic of Germany 1 1
Fiji 1
France 2 1
Ghana 7 4 2 3
Guyana 1
Hong Kong 1 1
India 12 2 4 3
Indonesia 1
Iran 1 10 4 1
Irish Republic 1
Israel 1
Italy 2
Ivory Coast 1
Jamaica 1 1
Japan 1
Jordan 1 1
Morocco 1 1
Nigeria 2 4 8 2
Pakistan 11 3 1
Poland 1 1
Portugal 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Seychelles 1
Singapore 1
South Africa 1
Spain 1
Sri Lanka 1 1
Sudan 1
Syria 1
Thailand 1
Trinidad 1
Turkey 5 4 3 1
United States of America 2
Venezuela 1
Yemen 1
Yugoslavia 2
56 40 35 20 7
Northern Ireland
Hong Kong 1
Scotland
Pakistan 1