Entry Refusal Statistics

HC Deb 24 April 1986 vol 96 cc192-6W

Mr. Tony Banks

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of persons who were refused entry into the United Kingdom and detained in each month over the past year; and if he will identify them by country of origin.

Mr. Waddington

The following tables give the information available on the number of occasions on which passengers were taken by the immigration authorities to approved detention accommodation in each month in the year ending February 1986. They are based on returns from all ports of entry, plus returns from the detention facilities at Harmondsworth and Heathrow queens building. Passengers who were taken to different buildings at different times may have been counted more than once. These figures include passengers required to submit to further examination and cannot be broken down to identify those passengers refused entry into the United Kingdom.

Table A
Commonwealth citizens detained at port of arrival, March 1985 to February 1986
Number
Citizens of	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	Total
Australia	3	3	1	3	5	4	2	2	1	3	6	3	36
Bangladesh	51	48	38	32	113	144	170	454	108	106	59	54	1,377
Canada	7	2	5	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	3	32
Cyprus	5	9	1	7	5	3	4	8	5	8	6	2	63
Ghana	112	98	107	72	119	123	162	122	147	114	148	130	1,454
Guyana	—	3	—	1	—	3	1	—	1	—	1	1	11
Hong Kong	11	19	2	19	8	9	10	9	10	4	—	12	113
India	85	83	88	83	131	106	105	115	130	156	111	85	1,278
Jamaica	1	1	1	2	4	9	7	5	6	2	8	6	52
Kenya	3	1	2	2	2	4	3	5	2	3	3	—	30
Malaysia	10	11	5	14	5	8	9	13	8	8	8	5	104
Malta	1	—	2	2	—	2	1	1	1	3	—	—	13
Mauritius	26	1	4	3	5	11	4	9	6	3	—	14	86
New Zealand	1	3	—	—	2	—	—	2	—	—	1	—	9
Nigeria	153	144	133	186	122	170	232	190	209	256	240	206	2,241
Sierra Leone	5	—	9	4	4	5	7	5	10	4	3	6	62
Singapore	—	2	1	1	12	2	—	3	2	—	1	—	24
Sri Lanka	44	61	482	75	17	20	32	10	15	28	28	16	828
Tanzania	1	1	1	5	5	5	3	—	—	5	3	1	30
Trinidad and Tobago	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	3
Uganda	2	—	4	3	5	1	4	—	3	9	6	3	40
Zambia	—	1	—	—	1	3	1	1	—	—	—	—	7
Zimbabwe	2	—	—	3	2	5	3	2	8	2	1	3	31
United Kingdom passport holders	—	1	—	—	1	4	—	—	3	—	1	5	15
Other countries and territories	10	12	14	11	20	14	9	10	6	10	15	21	152
Total Commonwealth	533	504	900	529	589	656	770	969	684	727	654	576	8,091

Table B
EC nationals detained at port of arrival, March 1985 to February 1986
Number
Nationals of	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	Total
Belgium	9	2	3	1	3	15	16	1	1	2	3	5	61
Denmark	4	3	1	3	1	2	—	—	1	1	—	1	17
France	10	20	15	14	12	8	7	10	14	12	6	13	141
Germany (Federal Republic)	9	11	4	11	7	8	22	6	10	14	12	6	120
Greece	3	13	—	15	—	3	7	7	7	9	3	4	71
Italy	7	8	5	10	4	9	2	6	8	5	6	2	72
Netherlands	8	6	6	2	5	9	7	10	2	7	7	4	73
Portugal*	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	26	27	53
Spain*	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	39	18	57
Total EC	50	63	34	56	32	54	61	40	43	50	102	80	665
* Figures for 1985 are in Table C.

Table C
Non-EC foreign nationals detained at port of arrival, March 1985 to February 1986
Number
Nationals of	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	Total
Algeria	28	24	16	48	70	83	73	49	29	35	42	25	522
Argentina	3	4	1	1	5	14	2	1	6	4	4	5	50
Austria	4	11	2	3	4	4	3	6	3	1	5	2	48
Brazil	11	14	8	6	6	11	15	14	10	11	9	14	129
Bulgaria	2	1	—	2	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	—	7
Chile	—	9	10	12	5	8	1	1	2	2	7	2	59
China	6	3	—	1	7	—	1	4	—	5	2	1	30
Colombia	80	29	30	26	26	23	35	20	37	28	31	26	391
Cuba	1	—	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4
Czechoslovakia	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	—	1	—	—	4
Egypt	7	2	3	7	—	3	4	11	6	3	8	4	58
Ethiopia	—	1	1	2	3	1	4	19	7	10	6	—	54
Finland	3	10	—	2	1	1	2	—	4	—	—	1	24
GDR	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
Hungary	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	3	—	2	—	7	13
Indonesia	2	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	5
Iran	54	13	11	11	27	31	28	19	36	31	27	17	305
Iraq	14	1	1	5	6	11	9	11	23	7	13	4	105

Nationals of	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	Total
Israel	7	14	11	11	7	3	8	22	16	8	9	6	122
Japan	4	7	7	2	7	5	2	5	2	8	10	4	63
Jordan	1	1	2	—	3	1	1	—	1	2	1	—	13
Kuwait	—	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	—	1	1	4
Lebanon	2	—	1	8	16	2	5	7	4	5	1	2	53
Libya	1	9	5	4	12	10	13	8	4	9	9	1	85
Mexico	2	3	—	1	1	1	7	—	1	2	1	2	21
Morocco	44	26	31	54	110	95	59	50	44	65	29	30	637
Norway	5	3	3	3	4	2	—	1	3	3	3	5	35
Pakistan	68	117	89	95	112	106	92	110	144	179	104	94	1,310
Peru	—	1	2	2	3	1	3	1	1	2	3	6	25
Philippines	5	1	3	4	6	9	9	4	1	8	2	3	55
Poland	5	4	2	10	7	3	4	6	4	5	5	3	58
Portugal*	15	23	37	26	19	37	34	19	45	24	—	—	279
Romania	—	—	1	1	—	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	5
Saudi Arabia	2	4	1	3	5	6	2	1	—	—	3	—	27
Somalia	—	2	3	—	2	—	1	4	1	1	2	—	16
South Africa	3	4	6	2	4	2	3	7	5	1	4	4	45
Spain*	27	26	25	25	23	24	34	44	40	18	—	—	280
Sudan	2	—	1	—	3	5	—	2	—	2	3	—	18
Sweden	6	7	4	1	5	10	8	—	3	—	7	6	57
Switzerland	5	4	3	3	4	3	4	4	4	7	5	4	50
Syria	—	—	—	7	2	1	2	—	1	—	2	—	15
Thailand	1	—	—	4	1	3	2	2	5	4	5	—	27
Tunisia	9	26	10	13	9	15	14	12	14	22	14	4	162
Turkey	54	74	50	76	88	73	129	107	100	152	78	44	1,025
USA	31	36	30	21	26	28	24	25	29	29	32	14	325
USSR	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
Uruguay	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	4	—	—	1	—	7
Venezuala	—	1	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	1	1	2	7
Yugoslavia	5	11	2	5	9	11	13	19	6	16	9	2	108
Other foreign countries	28	23	25	39	31	40	17	40	38	51	79	28	439
Stateless	18	38	19	37	27	29	36	18	18	36	37	23	336
Non-EC total	565	588	460	584	709	719	710	680	698	800	615	397	7,525
* Figures for 1986 are in Table B.

Mr. Tony Banks

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons and from which countries are currently being detained after entry refusal into the United Kingdom; and how long each of them has been detained.

Period detained
Nationality	Less than one day	Less than seven days	Less than 30 days	Less than 60 days	More than 60 days	Totals
Bangladesh	1	6	3	1	0	11
Colombia	3	0	0	0	0	3
Ghana	0	5	2	0	0	7
BDTC (Hong Kong)	0	0	0	1	0	1
India	1	0	9	2	0	12
Iran	0	0	1	0	1	2
Morocco	0	0	0	0	1	1
Malaysia	0	0	3	0	0	3
Nigeria	2	1	1	0	0	4
Pakistan	1	2	9	6	0	18
Sri Lanka	1	0	1	2	3	7
Turkey	1	0	0	0	1	2
USA	1	0	0	0	0	1
Doubtful	1	1	0	0	0	2
Totals	12	15	29	12	6	74

Of the six persons detained for more than 60 days one (Turk) has been detained for 106 days, one (Sri Lankan) for 93 days, one (Sri Lankan) for 86 days, one (Sri Lankan) for 79 days, one (Iranian) for 136 days and one (Moroccan) for 171 days.

Mr. Waddington

The information available is given in the table and relates to those passengers refused entry and detained under Immigration Act powers, other than in the control areas at ports, at 3 pm on 22 April 1986.