§ 47. Mr. David EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the increase over the past five years in the numbers of persons removed from the United Kingdom, either by deportations or as illegal immigrants, under his Department's enforcement powers.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe number of persons removed from the United Kingdom under the enforcement powers in the Immigration Act 1971, either as illegal entrants or under the deportation process, increased from 1,357 in 1984 to 3,838 in 1989. More detailed information is published in tables 23 and 24 of the Home Office Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 1988" (Cm. 726), and today, in Home Office Statistical Bulletin 8/90 "Control of Immigration: Statistics—Fourth Quarter and Year 1989", copies of both of which are in the Library.