HC Deb 09 July 1980 vol 988 cc170-1W
Mr. Freeson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his reply to the right hon. Member for Brent, East on 23 June, of those people arrested at supermarkets and houses related to Bestway Cash and Carry Ltd. and its employees on 13 May and taken to Kensington police station, how many were patrials and how many were non-patrials whose immigration status was in order; and in the operation centred upon Kensington police station, how many police officers and how many members of the immigration service took part; and what were the ranks of the most senior police and immigration officers present.

Mr. Raison

Of the 20 people arrested in the operation on 13 May and taken to Kensington police station, four were found to be patrial and 13 were non-patrials whose immigration status was in order. The other three were illegal entrants.

18 police officers, of whom the most senior was a superintendent, and nine members of the immigration service, of whom the most senior was a chief immigration officer, took part in the operation centred upon Kensington police station.