HC Deb 27 January 1986 vol 90 c373W
Mr. Greenway

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to require the repatriation of all Libyan student engineers currently under training at airports in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Waddington

Applications for leave to enter or remain have to be considered individually in accordance with the immigration rules. There are no grounds to justify a general policy of curtailing the stay or deporting all Libyan student engineers currently under training at airports here. But Libyan nationals remain subject to the strict immigration controls announced by my right hon. and learned Friend, the then Home Secretary, on 1 May 1984, and all applications from them are closely scrutinised.