§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) British nationals and (b) holders of certificates of identity from Hong Kong have been admitted to the United Kingdom in each quarter since January 1991 as (i) persons of independent means, (ii) self-employed persons, (iii) business people (iv) visitors (v) students (vi) husbands and fiancés, (vii) wives and fiancées and (viii) other dependent relatives.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe available information for British dependent territories citizens and British nationals (overseas) from Hong Kong is given in the table. Data on admissions of holders of certificates of identity from Hong Kong are not available.
spent in detention by persons so detained in each of those years; and whether he will give a breakdown by nationality of persons so detained for each of those years.
§ Mr. Peter LloydInformation about detainees received into prison service establishments in England and Wales under the Immigration Act 1971 in 1991 and the first quarter of 1992 is given by establishment and nationality in the tables.
The provisional average population in 1991, including persons originally received for a criminal offence, was 222. The average period of detention in 1991 is provisionally estimated as about eight weeks. The corresponding averages for the first quarter of 1992 are 216 and just over nine weeks.
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Receptions of persons detained under the Immigration Act 1971 into prison service establishments in England and Wales: by establishment, 1991 and March quarter 1992 Number of persons Establishment March quarter 11991 11992 Remand Centres Brinsford — 2 Brockhill 1 — Dorchester — 1 Feltham 10 4 Glen Parva 1 — Haslar 443 84 Hindley 1 — Low Newton — 2 Moorland — 1 Local Prisons Bedford 3 1 Belmarsh 14 6 Birmingham 71 26 Bristol 19 5 Brixton 16 1 Canterbury 36 —
Establishment March quarter 11991 11992 Cardiff 4 — Chelmsford 5 — Dorchester 6 6 Durham 5 1 Exeter 4 8 Gloucester 8 1 Holloway 34 13 Hull 16 2 Leeds 18 7 Leicester 55 6 Lewes 4 2 Lincoln 10 2 Liverpool 4 3 New Hall 2 — Norwich 18 2 Oxford 6 — Pentonville 378 68 Preston 14 13 Pucklechurch 2 — Reading 2 — Risley 2 — Shrewsbury — 2 Swansea 6 — Winchester 2 1 Wormwood Scrubs 4 9 All establishmenls 1,224 279 1 The figures, which are provisional are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost.
Receptions of persons detained under the Immigration Act 1971 into prison service establishments in England and Wales: by nationality, 1991 and March quarter 1992 Number of persons Nationality March quarter 11991 21992 Algeria 8 14 Angola 3 9 Bangladesh 36 7 Colombia 8 2 Cyprus — 2 Ethiopia 5 — France 6 5 Germany 2 2 Ghana 33 19 Hong Kong 11 7 India 70 48 Jamaica 12 9 Liberia — 3 Mauritius — 2 Morocco 11 5 Netherlands — 2 Nigeria 76 50 Pakistan 29 13 Romania 6 1 South Africa 1 4 Turkey 26 19 United States of America 2 3 Yugoslavia 4 3 Zaire 28 16 Other nationalities 275 312 Not recorded 772 22 All nationalities 1,224 279 1 The figures, which are provisional are those recorded centrally and are approximate: detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate cost. 2 Where fewer than five were recorded. 3 Where fewer than two were recorded.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were detained490W under Immigration Act powers for a period of more than two months on completion of a custodial sentence during 1991.
§ Mr. Charles WardleDuring 1991, 36 people were so detained for a period of more than two months. This figure excludes the subjects of deportation orders who served a custodial sentence of seven days or less and in relation to whom the information is not readily available.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons detained under Immigration Act powers applied to the Home Office to be allowed to depart voluntarily under(a) the supervised departure provisions and (b) the voluntary departure provisions of the immigration rules in each quarter since January 1991.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe readily available information relates to persons subject to deportation action who were removed under the supervised departure procedures, or left voluntarily, and persons dealt with as illegal entrants who left voluntarily. This information is given in tables 14 and 15 of the Home Office statistical bulletin "Control of Immigration; Statistics—Third and Fourth Quarters and Year 1991", a copy of which is in the Library. In the first quarter of 1992, 227 persons subject to deportation action were removed under the supervised departure procedures and 15 left voluntarily, and 82 persons dealt with as illegal entrants left voluntarily; these figures are provisional. Most of these persons will have been detained prior to departure. A number will have been subject to restrictions as an alternative to detention, but such cases could be separately identified only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the(a) passengers in total and (b) persons treated as illegal entrants who were granted temporary admission in 1991 subsequently absconded.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe available information relates to the number of persons who absconded, either from detention or by failing to respond to the terms of temporary admission/release, and is given in the table. Separate information on these two types of absconder is not recorded centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Absconders in 1991 Category of person Number of persons Passengers 1 601 Illegal entrants 168 1Includes some absconders recorded as "illegal entrants"
§ Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the European Commission about the entitlement of persons visiting or seeking asylum in other European Community countries to enter the United Kingdom as from 1 January 1993; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Charles WardleI have had no discussion with the Commission specifically on these matters, which are considered among the Twelve on an intergovernmental basis outside the treaty of Rome.
§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the 491W decision by the European Court of Justice in the case of Surinder Singh with regard to the enforcement of United Kingdom immigration rules under the treaty of Rome; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe case of Mr. Surinder Singh will now be considered by the High Court in the light of the decision by the European Court of Justice on the relevant point of Community law. It would not be appropriate for me to comment in detail on this particular case in advance of the High Court's judgment.
I will carefully study the judgments of both Courts and consider their wider implications, but at present I see no need to amend the immigration rules in the light of the case.