§ Mr. Whitfieldasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to maintain detailed separate statistics as to the number of visitors from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan who are admitted into the United Kingdom as a result of the representations of hon. Members.
§ Mr. WaddingtonNo. Statistics are maintained of the number of cases in which right hon. and hon. Members have made representations against a decision by an immigration officer to refuse entry to a passenger seeking admission to the United Kingdom. These will include the cases in which, following representations, it is decided that the refusal of entry should be withdrawn and leave to enter granted, but figures of the various nationalities involved will not be kept on a routine basis.
§ Mr. Evennettasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice has been issued to officials of the immigration service involved in interviewing those who may be charged with a criminal offence since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 came into force.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) on 11 June 1986 at cols.177–78.