§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of the people held in custody for over three months under the charge of being illegal immigrants.
§ Mr. RaisonThe following information relates to those held in detention on 1 June.
Of those detained as illegal entrants on the authority of an immigration officer, one had been in detention for more than three months. He had entered in a false identity and in all the circumstances of the case it was considered necessary to detain him pending the completion of criminal proceedings of which he was the subject, and consideration of representations made on his behalf against removal. Directions for his removal have now been authorised and arrangements are being made accordingly.