HC Deb 04 December 1990 vol 182 cc86-7W
Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women have been deported after serving sentences in British prisons for the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Figures in the form requested have been held centrally only since September 1986.

The figures in the table relate to deportations under section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1971, where recommendation for deportation made by a court was part of a custodial sentence, and under section 3(5)(b) of that Act where deportation on conducive grounds was deemed to be appropriate following a custodial sentence.

Section 3(6) Section 3(5)(b) Total
1987 38 3 41
1988 52 9 61
1989 69 6 75