§ Mr. Bernie GrantTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many overseas visitors were initially refused entry to the United Kingdom in(a) January to May 1988, inclusive, and (b) January to May 1989, inclusive, and what were their nationalities;
(2) how many Jamaican citizens were initially refused entry into the United Kingdom as not being genuine visitors in (a) January to May, inclusive 1988 and (b) January to May, inclusive, 1989.
§ Mr. Renton[holding answer 15 June 1989]: The total numbers of passengers by nationality who were refused leave to enter and removed from the United Kingdom between January and April of 1988 and 1989 are given in the table; figures for May 1989 are not yet available. It is not possible from the information available centrally to ascertain how many sought entry as visitors.
Of the 113 Jamaican citizens removed between January and April 1988 and the 307 removed between January and April 1989, 108 and 273 respectively failed to satisfy the immigration officer that they qualified as genuine visitors under paragraph 17 of the rules. Some of the remainder may also have sought entry as visitors but have been refused for other reasons.
§ Mr. Bernie GrantTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were arrested as 137W being illegal immigrants in the first five months of 1989, and in the corresponding five months in 1988; and what were their nationalities.
§ Mr. Renton[holding answer 15 June 1989]: The available information is of persons against whom action was commenced as illegal entrants, which is published quarterly in table 13 of Home Office statistical bulletin "Control of Immigration: Statistics", a copy of which is in the Library. The latest available figures relate to the fourth quarter of 1988 (in Bulletin 10/89). The figure for the first quarter of 1989 will be published in the next issue around the end of this month. A breakdown by nationality of the figures for the first and second quarters of 1988 is given in the following table.
138W
Persons against whom action was commenced as illegal entrants by nationality Number of persons Nationality 1988 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter Europe 182 162 Austria 3 2 Bulgaria 1 — Cyprus 10 4 Czechoslavakia 2 — France 5 — Federal Republic of Germany — 2 Hungary 2 4 Italy 2 2 Malta — 1 Netherlands — 1 Norway — 1 Poland 2 4 Portugal 20 51 Romania — — Spain 15 4 Sweden 3 1 Switzerland 2 1 Turkey 108 72 Yugloslavia 6 12 Americas 51 55 Brazil 11 6 Canada 3 — Chile — 4 Colombia 11 13 Jamaica 12 16 Mexico 1 1 Peru 2 4 Trinidad and Tobago — 2 United States of America 11 9 Africa 265 287 Algeria 21 23 Egypt 4 10 Ethiopia 1 1 Ghana 93 112 Libya — 3 Mauritius 5 3 Morocco 15 13 Nigeria 118 111 South Africa 1 2 Sudan 1 4 Tunisia 3 2 Uganda 1 — Zaire 2 — Zambia — 3 Asia 210 223 Bangladesh 43 65 China 1 1 Hong Kong BDTC 9 3 India 63 55 Iran 8 4 Iraq 1 4
Nationality 1988 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter Israel 3 4 Japan 8 2 Jordan — 4 Malaysia 8 15 Pakistan 33 39 Phillipines 2 2 Saudi Arabia 1 — Singapore 1 1 Sri Lanka 26 20 Syria 1 1 Thailand 2 3 Australasia Australia 2 3 Other 30 38 British Overseas Citizens 4 — Other countries not otherwise specified 14 27 Stateless 12 11 All Nationalities 740 768