HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 cc489-90W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the research projects on immigration and resettlement policy commissioned by his Department of which the results and final reports for which his Department has not published in part or in full in 1994; and if he will set out the reasons for the decisions not to publish.

Mr. Maclean

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) on 18 July,Official Report, columns 34–35.

Current projects on immigration and settlement policy are Manpower allocation planning for the immigration control. Study of factors which affect the decision to seek British citizenship. The experiences of settlement among refugees with special reference to housing and employment. The experiences of settlement among Vietnamese refugees.

Reports on these projects have not been finalised; but when they have been, they will be published.

Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many different individuals have been detained under Immigration Acts powers during the recent 12-month period; and of these how many were(a) asylum seekers and (b) others.

Mr. Nicholas Baker

I will write to the hon. Member.

Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list(a) the prisons and (b) the police stations used to detain people under Immigration Acts powers; and if he will give the numbers so detained for the latest available date.

Mr. Maclean

All prisons and police cells are designated places of detention for the purpose of detention under the Immigration Act 1971.

Details are given in the following table of people detained on 19 July 1994 in Prison Service establishments. Similar details are not available for police cells and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Immigration detainees held in
(i) Prison Numbers
Aberdeen 2
Armley 2
Bedford 1
Belfast 2
Belmarsh 8
Blakenhurst 4
Bristol 1
Brinsford 9
Brixton 3
Bullingdon 30
Cardiff 1
Chelmsford 3
Cookham Wood 1
(i) Prison Numbers
Dorchester 3
Durham 1
Edinburgh 1
Elmley 3
Erlestoke 1
Exeter 2
Feltham 2
Gloucester 1
Greenock 7
Haslar 24
Highdown 14
Holloway 5
Hull 5
Lewes 2
Liverpool 3
Manchester 13
Norwich 2
Pentonville 4
Reading 1
Rochester 28
Shrewsbury 2
Swaleside 1
Swansea 1
Wandsworth 9
Winchester 4
Winson Green 38
The Wolds 2
Wormwood Scrubs 2
Total 248
(ii) Police Celts 12