HC Deb 13 July 1998 vol 316 c51W
26. Mr. Viggers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the extent to which illegal immigration into this country is by way of other member countries of the European Union. [48422]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

Significant numbers of illegal immigrants enter the United Kingdom from neighbouring continental countries within the European Union. We have been handicapped in returning many of them by the provisions of the Dublin Convention signed up to by the previous Government.