§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many reports have been made by marriage registrars and from which registration areas to the Registrar General, that marriages are suspected to be solely for immigration purposes, in each year from 1990 to the latest convenient date; and in how many of these instances information has been passed on to the Home Office.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe available information is shown in the table. During the first six months of this year superintendent registrars reported 78 cases to the registrar general where they suspected that a proposed marriage of a person from abroad had been arranged for the sole purpose of evading statutory immigration controls.
Reports received by the Registrar General during the period 1 January 1992 to 30 June 1992 Registration Number of Reports Bracknell 1 Brent 16 Cambridge 1 Colwyn 1 Durham Northern 1 Ealing 2 Hammersmith 2 Kensington and Chelsea 3 Lambeth 1 Leicestershire Central 1 Lewisham 21 Merton 5 Oldham 1 Oxford 2 Portsmouth 1 Sheffield 1 Southwark 5 Stockport 1 Wandsworth 1 Westminster 11 TOTAL 78 Information in respect of 18 such cases was passed on to the Home Office.