HC Deb 06 March 1990 vol 168 cc559-60W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are being held in detention for immigration reasons; where they are being held; how many are asylum-seekers; and how many in the latter category are women.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

No central record is maintained of the number of people held in detention for immigration reasons. On 28 February there were 187 people detained solely under Immigration Act powers in the following establishments:

Number
Harmondsworth detention centre 70
Queens Building, Heathrow 13
Gatwick Airport 6
Newhaven 11
HMP Haslar 87

1 Including applications for a certificate of entitlement to the right of abode in the United Kingdom.

2 Country in which the application was received, irrespective of the nationality of the applicant.

3 Including applications subsequently withdrawn.

4 Granted initially or on appeal.

5 These applications may have been received in an earlier period.

6 Including applications by persons in St. Lucia.

Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many nationals of(a) Trinidad and Tobago, (b) Guyana, (c) Barbados and (d) St. Lucia have (i) been admitted and (ii) been refused admittance and removed during the 12 months of 1989; and what are the figures for each year since 1979.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The available information is given in the table. St. Lucia is not separately identified in the statistics of admissions and removals.

It is estimated that some 30 people were detained at other prisons and in police cells in the south-east of England on the same day. There is no central record of how many of those detained had sought asylum.

Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women have been detained in Holloway for immigration reasons over the last 12 months; and how many of these are asylum-seekers.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The most recent figures available are for the calendar year 1989. In this period, 16 women were detained in Holloway under the powers conferred by the Immigration Act 1971. There is no central record of how many of these had sought asylum.