§ Mr. Les Huckfieldasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will list the functions and the categories of information stored on the computer at Bootle handling visitors' landing cards.
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§ Mr. WaddingtonThe primary function of the computer system which handles the landing and embarkation cards completed by passengers subject to immigration control is to automate the earlier manual arrangements for pairing these cards in order to indicate apparent overstayers. The system provides statistical information about numbers of arrivals and for persons granted settlement on removal of time limit. It also records the registration of foreign nationals with the police and issues reports in respect of those for whom no record of registration has been received after the registration requirement has been imposed.
The principal information in an individual record consists of identifying particulars (including names, nationality, sex and date of birth), the current conditions of stay, the date(s) and port(s) of arrival and departure, the police registration requirement, if any, and the receipt and outcome of an application for variation of leave.