§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons detained under Immigration Act powers applied to his Department 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 1992.
§ 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 the table. 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.
(2) what consideration is given to extending permit-free training status beyond the maximum of four years for hospital training posts undertaken by doctors from non-EC countries.
§ Mr. Charles WardleUnder the immigration rules there is no provision for a non-EC national doctor coming here for postgraduate training in a hospital to switch to work permit employment. Where a doctor requires longer than 619W four years to complete his or her postgraduate training, we are prepared to consider, exceptionally, granting further leave to remain on a permit-free basis for a limited period.