§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will indicate the number of refusals of visitors at United Kingdom ports of entry in 1985, 1986 and for the first 10 months of 1988, showing the figure as a percentage by the number of visitor applications made.
§ Mr. RentonThe available information on the numbers of passengers admitted into the United Kingdom and on those who were refused leave to enter and removed in 1985, 1986 and 1987 are published annually in table 1 of the annual Command Paper "Control of Immigration Statistics, United Kingdom" (Cm. 9863, 166 and 415 respectively). Although the numbers of visitors admitted are known, it is not possible to distinguish from the refused and removed figures those passengers who had sought entry as visitors.
In the first nine months of 1988, 13,743 non-EC passengers were refused leave to enter and removed. The corresponding admission figures are not yet available.