Mr. J. Enoch Powellasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether, when the computer has been brought into use, he will resume publication of arrivals and departures in the United Kingdom from outside the British Isles by nationality;
(2) whether, when the computer has been brought into use, he will publish at suitable intervals the statistics of overstaying.
§ Mr. RaisonInformation, by nationality, about passengers entering the United Kingdom is given in the annual Command Paper, " Control of Immigration Statistics ", the most recent issue of which is for 1979 (Cmnd. 7875).
Checks on the embarkation of those admitted continue to be selective. The computer will process the landing and embarkation cards which are now handled manually. The reasons for not attempting to compile embarkation statistics will remain, and the difficulties which at present prevent the compilation of statistics to show the extent of overstaying will not be removed.