§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were detained(a) overnight and (b) for a period of more than a month in (i) 18W Harmondsworth detention centre, (ii) the Queen's building, Heathrow, (iii) the Beehive, Gatwick, (iv) Dover and (v) HM prison Haslar during (x) 1990 and (y) 1991 to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information readily available relates to the number of persons whose detention spanned at least one night pending further examination of their application for admission to, or their removal from, the United Kingdom and is given in the table. Separate information on persons detained for more than a month could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Since 1990 there has been an increase in asylum applicants detained at Harmondsworth and, to a lesser extent, Haslar. On average, such persons stay longer than other detainees, resulting in a decrease in the total number of persons detained there over a period.
Persons detained overnight or longer at certain locations1 Location 1990 Year 1991 January to August Harmondsworth23 3,284 596 Queen's Building, Heathrow 2,215 1,464 Beehive, Gatwick 2,648 1,887 Dover24 164 146 Haslar 678 318 1 Unless otherwise stated, the data include persons initially detained elsewhere prior to being detained at the location given. 2 Data exclude illegal entrants and deportees. 3 Data mainly exclude persons initially detained elsewhere. 4 Including passengers at Dover detained overnight at other locations.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons detained under Immigration Act powers applied to the Home Office to be allowed to depart voluntarily under the supervised departure provisions of the immigration rules in each quarter since January 1990.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe readily available information on the numbers of persons removed in 1990 under the supervised departure procedures is given in table 34 of the Home Office Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 1990"—Cm. 1571—a copy of which is in the Library. Corresponding information for the first two quarters of 1991 is given in the table. Most of these persons would have been detained prior to departure. A number would have been subject to restrictions as an alternative to detention, but such cases could be separately identified only at disproportionate cost.
Persons removed under the supervised departure procedures, by category of case, in 19911 Breach of conditions2 Following court recommendation3 Total 1991 First quarter 404 3 407 Second quarter 383 3 386 1 Data are provisional. 2 Of leave to enter or remain. Section 3(5)(a). 3 Section 3(6).
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will provide a breakdown by nationality of the number of passengers seeking political asylum who were detained under Immigration 19W Act powers in (a) 1990 and (b) 1991 to the latest convenient date in (i) prison department establishments and (ii) immigration detention accommodation.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the total number of
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Passengers1 detained overnight or longer, by nationality Geographical region and nationality 1990 Year 1991, January to August Total Of whom, detained at Terminal 4 Heathrow2 All nationalities 9,007 5,182 1,888 European Community 58 19 9 Belgium 4 0 — Denmark — 0 .. France 14 6 .. Germany3 3 2 .. Greece 3 0 .. Italy 1 1 .. Luxembourg — 0 .. Netherlands 14 3 .. Portugal 15 4 .. Spain 4 3 .. Other Western Europe 758 401 93 Austria 8 4 .. Cyprus 57 24 .. Finland 6 7 .. Malta 2 5 .. Norway 12 3 .. Sweden 20 18 .. Switzerland 14 6 .. Turkey 262 168 .. Yugoslavia 377 166 .. Eastern Europe 160 164 33 Bulgaria 27 25 .. Czechoslovakia 8 20 .. German Dem Republic4 — — .. Hungary 18 22 .. Poland 66 39 .. Romania 22 46 .. USSR 19 12 .. Americas 1,151 689 174 Argentina 7 17 .. Barbados 3 4 .. Brazil 284 129 .. Canada 22 11 .. Chile 20 15 .. Colombia 233 191 .. Cuba 7 2 .. Guyana 14 7 .. Jamaica 216 155 .. Mexico 54 14 .. Peru 44 19 .. Trinidad and Tobago 42 10 .. United States of America 186 107 .. Uruguay 4 — .. Venezuela 15 8 .. Africa 3,676 1,781 613 Algeria 614 132 .. Egypt 18 22 .. Ethiopia 397 85 .. Ghana 393 368 .. Kenya 75 31 .. Libya 20 13 .. Mauritius 47 23 .. Morocco 283 92 .. Nigeria 604 582 .. Sierra Leone 124 112 .. Somalia 480 134 .. passengers detained overnight under Immigration Act powers during (a) 1990 and (b) 1991 to the latest convenient date, by nationality;
(2) if he will list the number of people, by nationality, detained overnight or longer at terminal 4 at Heathrow airport during 1991.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe available information is given in the table.
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Geographical region and nationality 1990 Year 1991, January to August Total Of whom, detained at Terminal 4 Heathrow2 South Africa 48 38 .. Sudan 21 18 .. Tanzania 45 18 .. Tunisia 40 12 .. Uganda 404 58 .. Zambia 28 18 .. Zimbabwe 35 25 .. Indian sub-continent 777 717 373 Bangladesh 212 377 .. India 230 153 .. Pakistan 335 187 .. Middle East 490 187 109 Iran 118 33 .. Iraq 165 47 .. Israel 76 55 .. Jordan 16 11 .. Kuwait 1 3 .. Lebanon 94 31 .. Saudi Arabia 13 1 .. Syria 7 6 .. Remainder of Asia 644 385 180 China 33 28 .. Indonesia 1 4 .. Japan 45 14 .. Malaysia 177 141 .. Philippines 42 14 .. Singapore 24 7 .. Sri Lanka 246 129 .. Thailand 25 9 .. Hong Kong5 51 39 .. Australasia 38 24 8 Australia 20 19 .. New Zealand 18 5 .. Others 1,255 815 296 British Overseas citizens 21 24 .. Other countries not elsewhere specified 840 544 .. Stateless 394 247 .. .. Reliable data for individual nationalities are not available. 1 Includes some illegal entrants and deportees. 2 Includes persons detained initially (or subsequently) at other locations. 3 Includes nationals of the former German Democratic Republic recorded after the unification of Germany on 3 October 1990. 4 Prior to the unification of Germany on 3 October 1990. 5 British Dependent Territories citizens and British Nationals (Overseas) only.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were detained under Immigration Act powers for a period of more than two months on completion of a custodial sentence during(a) 1990 and (b) 1991 to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe figures, excluding the subjects of deportation orders who served a custodial sentence of seven days or less and for whom the information is not readily available, are as follows:
Number 1990 31 11991 30 1 First three quarters.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were received into prison department establishments under Immigration Act powers during(a) 1989, (b) 1990 and (c) 1991 to the latest convenient date, by individual prison establishment; 22W what was the average daily population of persons so detained in each of those years; what was the average length of time spent in detention by persons so detained in each of those years; and whether he will give a breakdown by nationality of persons so detained for each of those years.
§ Mrs. RumboldInformation about detainees received into prison service establishments in England and Wales under the Immigration Act 1971 in 1989 and 1990 is given by establishment and nationality in the table. Information for 1991 is not yet available.
The average population and the average length of detention of such detainees in Prison Service establishments in 1989 were published in tables 1.1 and 6.6 of "Prison Statistics England and Wales"—Cm 1221—a copy of which is in the Library. The average population in 1990, including persons originally received for a criminal offence, was 144. The average period of detention in 1990 is provisionally estimated as nearly six weeks. 23W
Receptions of persons detained under the Immigration Act 1971 into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales: by establishment, 1989 and 1990 Number of Persons Establishment 11989 1 21990 Remand Centres Cardiff — 2 Exeter 1 — Feltham 4 1 Haslar 397 575 Latchmere House 595 1 Pucklechurch 2 — Risley 2 2 Winchester — 1 Local Prisons Ashford 1 — Bedford 2 5 Birmingham 50 63 Bristol 10 32 Brixton 7 24 Canterbury 17 32 Cardiff 4 3 Chelmsford — 2 Dorchester 15 3 Durham 4 4 Exeter 4 — Gloucester 57 10 Holloway 20 16 Hull 3 5 Leeds 20 19 Leicester 41 24 Lewes 1 3 Lincoln — 7 Liverpool — 1 New Hall 2 5 Norwich — 6 Oxford 6 2 Pentonville 25 34 Preston — 3 Pucklechurch — 1 Risley 10 9 Shrewsbury 3 2 Swansea 6 2 Winchester 14 17 Wormwood Scrubs 1 — All Establishments 1,324 916 1 The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost. 2 Provisional figures. 24W
Receptions of persons detained under the Immigration Act 1971 into prison service establishments in England and Wales: by nationality 1989 and 1990 Number of persons Nationality 19891 199012 Algeria 56 38 Angola 17 13 Bangladesh 35 9 Colombia 3 13 Cyprus 10 3 Egypt 6 4 Ethiopia 10 4 France 6 3 Ghana 115 84 Hong Kong 11 3 India 99 54 Iran 15 1 Iraq 20 5 Irish Republic 8 — Ivory Coast 2 5 Jamaica 18 12 Lebanon — 6 Malaysia 6 6 Morocco 28 25
Number of persons Nationality 19891 199012 Nigeria 183 106 Pakistan 39 38 Philippines 5 1 Poland 4 5 Sierra Leone 9 3 Somalia 61 2 South Africa 3 5 Sri Lanka 20 3 Turkey 261 31 Uganda 31 9 Zaire 43 23 Zimbabwe 2 5 Other nationalities3 78 55 Not recorded 120 342 All nationalities 1,324 916 1 The figures are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve dispropor-tionate cost. 2 Provisional figures. 3 Where fewer than five were recorded.