§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many places have been offered to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office by the Prison Service for Immigration Act detainees. [HL3875]
§ Lord Williams of MostynThe Prison Service provides 500 places for immigration detainees predominantly at Haslar, Rochester and Holloway.
The Immigration Service is discussing with the Prison Service how it might help to deliver the Government's commitment to hold immigration detainees in discrete centres separate from prisoners. The possibility of further Prison Service sites being developed as immigration detention centres is being considered but no places have been offered to the Immigration Service at present.
§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many Immigration Act detainees were held in each of the prisons or detention centres in use for this purpose on 30 September. [HL3876]
§ Lord Williams of MostynThe available information relating to persons held in detention solely208WA under Immigration Act powers as at 30 September 1998 by place of detention is given in the table.
Persons recorded as being in detention1 solely under Immigration Act powers as at 30 September 1998, by place of detention Location Total Detainees Immigration detention centres Campsfield 182 Dover Harbour 20 Harmondsworth 63 Heathrow's Queen's Building 14 Longport 8 Manchester Airport 11 Tinsley House 143 Prison establishments Aberdeen 3 Belmarsh 11 Birmingham 5 Blakenhurst 2 Bristol 2 Brixton 6 Canterbury 6 Chelmsford 3 Doncaster 4 Dorchester 2 Elmley 2 Edinburgh 3 Feltham 3 Greenock 8 Haslar 133 High Down 24 Highpoint 3 Holloway 24 Holme House 3 Leeds 6 Leicester 2 Lewes 3 Liverpool 3 Magilligan 7 Manchester 5 Norwich 5 Pentonville 7 Rochester 181 Wandsworth 9 Winchester 2 Wormwood Scrubs 20 Other prison establishments 4 Total 938 1 Excluding persons detained in police cells.