§ Mr. Chris SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will indicate, for each of the past three years, and for the current year to date, how many people have been given indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom on compassionate grounds.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe cases referred to cannot be identified separately in the figures for acceptances for settlement. As analysis of acceptances in the years 1986–88 and the first two quarters of 1989, by category, is published in table 3 of Home Office statistical bulletin issue 31/ 89 "Control of Immigration: Statistics—Second Quarter 1989", a copy of which is in the Library. Corresponding information for the third quarter of 1989 will be published next month.