§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of visitors from Jamaica who have overstayed in each year since 1997. [90699]
§ Beverley HughesInformation on the number of persons who have overstayed their conditions of entry to the United Kingdom is not available and no estimate758W of this number has been made. However, we are aware that large numbers of Jamaican nationals who have been granted temporary admission subsequently abscond.
More than 1,000 did so in the first six months of 2002.