HC Deb 24 January 1975 vol 884 cc512-4W
Mr. Hatton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of persons, together with their nationality, wishing to enter the United Kingdom as visitors for a short stay during 1974, who were refused admission.

Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

I regret that our statistics do not record how many of those refused leave to enter were seeking admission as visitors, but the attached table shows the total number subject to possible refusal and the numbers refused on all grounds from the Commonwealth and from foreign countries for the period January to October 1974.

REFUSALS OF LEAVE TO ENTER: JANUARY—OCTOBER 1974
Commonwealth Citizens
Total subject to possible refusal 622,654
Refusals:
Country or territory issuing passport.
Associated States 10
Australia 19
Bangladesh 223
Barbados 6
Canada 25
Cyprus 139
Ghana 256
Guyana 11
Hong Kong 145
India 422
Jamaica 17
Kenya 29
Malaysia 70
Malta 20
Mauritius 121
New Zealand 4
Nigeria 441
Rhodesia 19
Sierra Leone 13
Singapore 24
Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 35
Tanzania 2
Trinidad and Tobago 18
Uganda 36
United Kingdom passport holders 124
All other territories 45
Total refused 2,344
Foreign Nationals
Total subject to possible refusal 5,841,819
Refusals:
Nations of
Arab Republic of Egypt 113
Argentina 23
Austria 47
Belgium 5
Brazil 34
Chile 24
China 13
Colombia 38
Cuba 10
Czechoslovakia 14
Denmark 5
Finland 22
France 36
German Democratic Republic 94
Germany, Federal Republic of 65
Greece 182
Hungary 11
Indonesia 22

Iran 108
Iraq 35
Israel 63
Italy 23
Japan 100
Mexico 7
Netherlands 41
Norway 18
Pakistan 704
Peru 8
Poland 137
Portugal 127
Romania 15
South Africa 52
Spain 395
Sweden 39
Switzerland 83
Turkey 234
USA 260
USSR 7
Venezuela 23
Yugoslavia 145
Other Foreign Countries 1,216
Total refused 4,598