§ 77. Dame Joan Vickersasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigrants, men, women, boys and girls, have been placed in prison pending investigations as to their right of entry into this country.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesCorrected figures for 1967 and provisional figures for 1968 are set out in the following table. Except where indicated in the notes to the table, all were Commonwealth citizens.
Men Women Boys Girls 1967 Prisons 39* — — — Remand Homes — — 2 1 Remand Centres — — 12 1 Totals 39 — 14 2 1968 Prisons 66† 20 — — Remand Homes — 2‡ 21 3 Remand Centres — 2‡ 46§ 2 Totals 66 24 67 5 * Includes one alien. † Includes three aliens. ‡ Women exceptionally admitted to remand homes and remand centres to be with their children. § Includes two aliens.