HC Deb 08 February 1994 vol 237 c155W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the recent deportation of a woman who arrived at Gatwick airport to meet a flight as a sponsor and was found to have a forged passport.

Mr. Charles Wardle

On 15 December 1993 a Jamaican woman was recognised by police officers at Gatwick airport and arrested on suspicion of being in breach of the immigration laws. She was interviewed under caution in the presence of a solicitor. In the light of the information available, she was judged to be an illegal entrant and was detained as such. She subsequently signed a notice that she wished to leave for Jamaica as soon as possible and did so on 22 December.