§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested as being illegal immigrants in each month since January 1981; for each monthly figure how many were discovered as they passed through customs points at United Kingdom ports and airports; and how many were arrested having been resident in the United Kingdom for more than one day.
§ Mr. RaisonThe number of illegal entrants detected is published quarterly in the Home Office statistical bulletin, "Control of Immigration Statistics", copies of which are placed in the Library of the House. The figures for the first two quarters of this year were 330 and 230 respectively, and those for the third quarter will be published today. The information requested in the second and third parts of the question is not available, but people who are detected at ports and airports attempting to enter the United Kingdom illegally are refused leave to enter and are not treated as illegal entrants.