HC Deb 17 January 1972 vol 829 c67W
Mr. Clinton Davis

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances his Department is prepared to assist an unmarried mother and her child to return to the mother's country of origin, contemporaneously with the deportation of the father of the child.

Mr. Sharples

It is the normal practice to assist the dependants of a person being deported to accompany him when he is required to leave the United Kingdom. Depending on the facts of the particular case, the mother of a child of the person being deported might be treated as his dependant for this purpose.