§ Mr. Dubsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passengers by nationality were refused leave to enter in each month since January 1985; and what percentage of passenger traffic from these countries these figures represent.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe available information relates to passengers removed from the United Kingdom after having been refused leave to enter. The table gives the figures by nationality for the first three months of 1985. Figures for subsequent months were given in the reply to a question from the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) on 11 July 1986 at column 284.
Total admission figures for 1985 by nationality, but excluding European Community countries, were published in table 1 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom 1985" (Cmnd. 9863).
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Commonwealth citizens and foreign Nationals refused leave to enter amd removed from the United Kingdom January-March 1985 Number Nationality January February March Commonwealth citizens Australia 3 3 10 Bangladesh 55 42 53 Barbados — — — Canada 5 3 5 Cyprus 4 9 10 Ghana 87 84 113 Guyana — 2 — Hong Kong BDTC 15 9 9 India 215 125 124 Jamaica 5 7 2 Kenya 3 3 4 Malaysia 18 5 13 Malta 2 3 1 Mauritius 8 4 21 New Zealand 1 5 1 Nigeria 177 156 183 Sierra Leone 4 3 3 Singapore 2 — — Sri Lanka 41 18 13 Tanzania 5 5 7 Trinidad and Tobago 1 — — Uganda — 5 2 Zambia 5 3 2 Zimbabwe 3 5 3 British Overseas Citizens 3 2 3 Other Commonwealth Countries 12 12 7 Commonwealth Total 674 513 589 Foreign Nationals Algeria 13 31 34 Argentina 4 2 6 Austria 3 — 4 Belgium — — 2 Brazil 3 9 9 Bulgaria 1 1 2
Nationality January February March Chile 5 1 2 China — 7 64 Colombia 9 13 63 Cuba — — 1 Czechoslovakia — — — Denmark 1 3 3 Egypt 3 3 5 Ethiopia 1 — 1 Finland 2 — 4 France 14 9 16 German Democratic Republic 1 — — Germany Federal Republic 7 2 5 Greece 11 4 1 Hungary — — 2 Indonesia 2 1 1 Iran 34 33 75 Iraq 11 5 17 Israel 10 8 6 Italy 3 13 7 Japan 3 3 2 Jordon 3 3 4 Kuwait 1 — — Lebanon 6 2 6 Libya 15 4 6 Mexico 2 — 2 Morocco 41 29 37 Netherlands 6 4 7 Norway 2 1 5 Pakistan 120 105 96 Peru 2 1 3 Philippines 12 7 13 Poland 19 18 4 Portugal 16 15 19 Romania 2 1 1 Saudi Arabia 7 1 5 Somalia — — — South Africa 2 8 7 Spain 34 31 27 Sudan 4 2 11 Sweden 6 15 6 Switzerland 4 1 6 Syria 4 6 — Thailand 4 2 — Tunisia 10 6 10 Turkey 37 19 20 United States of America 55 24 35 USSR 4 6 4 Uruguay — 1 — Venezuela — — 2 Yugoslavia 11 3 8 Other Foreign Countries 29 27 24 Stateless 51 25 34 Foreign Total 650 515 734 All Nationalities 1,324 1,028 1,323