§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passengers sought entry into the United Kingdom as visitors during each of the last 10 six-monthly periods for which records are available; of these, how many and what percentage were (a) given leave to enter the United Kingdom as visitors immediately upon arrival, (b) given temporary admission and (c) refused, and for what reasons; and how many and what percentage of these persons in each category were from (i) the United States of America, (ii) the Commonwealth, (iii) the New Commonwealth and Pakistan and (iv) the Indian subcontinent.
§ Mr. Waddington[pursuant to his reply, 1 August 1984]: The readily available information is given in the following tables. Information on those refused leave to enter and those temporarily admitted does not specifically identify visitors and the information on those temporarily admitted is not available by nationality.
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United States of America Common wealth New Commonwealth and Pakistan Indian Sub-continent All nationalities excluding EC number percentage number percentage number percentage number percentage number percentage Table 1 Number of persons Passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom as visitors, 1979–84 1979 2nd half 824,000 28 594,000 20 278,000 9 88,300 3 2,970,000 100 1980 1st half 668,000 30 452,000 20 203,000 9 69,300 3 2,200,000 100 2nd half 741,000 28 552,000 21 312,000 12 90,000 3 2,630,000 100 1981 1st half 585,000 30 405,000 21 222,000 12 72,100 4 1,910,000 100 2nd half 714,000 29 518,000 21 321,000 13 88,900 4 2,460,000 100 1982 1st half 614,000 31 424,000 22 232,000 12 79,300 4 1,960,000 100 2nd half 782,000 31 548,000 22 336,000 13 97,900 4 2,520,000 100 1983 1st half 724,000 34 481,000 23 260,000 12 88,100 4 2,120,000 100 2nd half 1,060,000 36 632,000 21 373,000 13 113,000 4 2,960,000 100 1984 1st half 947,000 38 526,000 21 268,000 11 102,000 4 2,490,000 100 Table 2 Number of persons and percentages Passengers refused leave to enter the United Kingdom, 1979–84 1979 2nd half 342 3 3,019 28 3,558 32 1,485 14 10,922 100 1980 1st half 307 4 2,563 29 2,984 34 1,260 14 8,710 100 2nd half 342 4 2,823 34 3,268 39 1,211 14 8,304 100 1981 1st half 296 5 2,750 44 3,096 49 1,096 17 6,263 100 2nd half 307 4 3,038 44 3,434 49 1,208 17 6,946 100 1982 1st half 252 5 2,465 46 2,781 51 915 17 5,416 100 2nd half 268 4 2,916 43 3,421 50 1,266 18 6,815 100 1983 1st half 253 4 2,765 47 3,173 53 1,130 19 5,931 100 2nd half 317 4 3,720 46 4,293 53 1,678 21 8,050 100 1984 1st half 309 4 3,955 53 4,462 59 1,639 22 7,510 100
Table 3 Passengers given temporary admission* to the United Kingdom Year Number of persons 1979 4,742 1980 5,864 1981 5,776 1982 6,600 1983 7,292 * Under paragraph 21 of schedule 2 of the Immigration Act 1971.