§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the(a) prisons, (b) detention centres and (c) police stations used to detain persons under the powers of the Immigration Act 1971, as amended; and what is the number of persons currently detained at each individual establishment.
§ Mr. Charles Wardle[holding answer 27 June 1994]: On 29 June 1994, people were detained under Immigration Act powers at the following locations:
Immigration Service Number Campsfield House 165 Harmondsworth 95 Gatwick Beehive 16 Queens Building 15 Stansted 7 Port Detention 7 Newhaven 6 Prison Service Aberdeen 2 Belfast 1 Belmarsh 8 Blakenhurst 10 Brinsford R C 6 Bristol 4 Bullingdon 1 Brixton 4 Canterbury 33 Cardiff 1 Chelmsford 4 Dover 23 Durham 2 Edinburgh 1 Elmley 1 Erlestoke 3 Exeter 6 Feltham 4 Glen Parva 1 Gloucester 1 Greenock 9 Haslar1 128 High Down 13 Holloway 11 Hull 4 Leeds 4 Lewes 3 Liverpool 3 Norwich 5 Pentonville 21 Reading 1 Risley 1 Rochester 1 Shrewsbury 2 Strangeways 9 Swaleside 1 Swansea 1 Wandsworth 7 Winchester 8 Winson Green 40 The Wolds 1 Wormwood Scrubs 6 Police Stations2 43 Total 749 1Haslar Holding Centre is primarily an Immigration Detention Centre, although managed by the Prison Service. 2The numbers held in individual police stations are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.