§ Mr. Altonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to extend section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 to cover Vietnamese boat people and other non-Commonwealth groups of immigrants.
§ Mr. WaddingtonWe have no such plans.
§ Mr. Soleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of persons detained in 1983 under Immigration Act powers in prison department establishments on completion of a custodial sentence.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI regret that this information is not available. The available information relates to those persons awaiting deportation who were detained for more than two months on completion of a custodial sentence. There were 29 such persons in 1983.
§ Mr. Soleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will provide a table indicating the period of time spent in prison department establishments for the latest convenient date of persons detained under Immigration Act powers, showing the numbers detained for not more than one, two, three, four, five and six months, respectively.
§ Mr. WaddingtonOn 16 February 1984, 201 persons were so detained. The information requested about their period of detention is as follows:
Not more than Numbers One month 89 Two months 40 Three months 29 Four months 14 Five months 19 Six months 2
§ Mr. Soleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many notices of intention to deport were served under section 3(5)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971 in 1982 and 1983 by month, or, if not available, by quarter.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe information is as follows:
Month 1982 1983 January 6 10 February 10 8 March 10 15 April 7 12 May 3 7 June 7 1 July 2 7 August 10 7 September 8 7 October 6 11 November 1 16 December 2 10 Total 72 111