HL Deb 12 May 1998 vol 589 cc116-7WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many Immigration Act detainees are held in each of the prisons or detention centres in use for this purpose; and, for each establishment, when the person who, at the end of April, has spent longest in custody was detained. [HL1737]

Lord Williams of Mostyn

The available information, relating to persons held in detention solely under Immigration Act powers as at 31 March 1998 by place of detention, is given in the table.

I regret that the information requested on lengths of detention is only available at disproportionate cost through the examination of individual case records.

Persons recorded as being in detention1 solely under Immigration Act powers as at 31 March 1998, by place of detention
Location Total Detainees
Immigration detention centres
Campsfield 109
Dover Harbour 13
Harmondsworth 90
Heathrow's Queen's Building 15
Longport 5
Manchester Airport 13
Tinsley House 146
Prison establishments
Aberdeen 2
Belmarsh 5
Birmingham 4
Blakenhurst 5
Bristol 3
Brixton 9
Bullingdom 6
Canterbury 3
Chelmsford 3
Doncaster 3
Durham 2
Elmley 5
Greenock 8
Haslar 137
High Down 19
Hindley 2
Holloway 12
Leeds 6
Lewes 4
Liverpool 3
Magilligan 10
Manchester 7
Norwich 4
Pentonville 7
Reading 2
Rochester 196
Wandsworth 11
Winchester 2
Wormwood Scrubs 19
Other establishments 5
Total 895
1 Excluding persons detained in police cells.