HC Deb 20 January 1989 vol 145 c351W
Mr. Sedgemore

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will give full details of the reasons for the refusal of the immigration officer to allow Ayten Mete (EAT/RLE/135/89) from Turkey to visit her relatives;

(2)if he wil instruct the immigration officer to reconsider his refusal to allow Ayten Mete to visit her relatives in Britain;

(3)if he will make a statement about the immigration officer's refusal to allow Ayten Mete from Turkey to visit her relatives in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Renton

Ayten Mete was refused entry at Gatwick in accordance with the immigration rules because the immigration officer was not satisfied that she was genuinely seeking entry for the period of her visit as stated by her. It will be open to her to exercise her right of appeal abroad.

Following the introduction on 3 January of new guidelines on the handling of representations by right hon. and hon. Members in immigration cases which were fully debated in this House on 10 November, I am not prepared to instruct the immigration officer to reconsider his decision, nor to take any other action not in accordance with those guidelines.