HC Deb 19 May 1994 vol 243 cc570-2W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for the lastest date for which figures are available by Her Majesty's detention centre and by Her Majesty's prison the number of persons held in respect of alleged immigration irregularities; and if he will show the port where each of the individuals was originally apprehended.

Mr. Charles Wardle

[holding answer 4 May 1994]: The following is the information available as at 11 May 1994.

Place of detention Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action On entry port cases 1 Port of arrival
Belfast Prison 1
Belmarsh Prison 1
Birmingham Prison 28 7 Heathrow 4
Birmingham 2
Portsmouth 1
Blakenhurst Prison 19
Brinsford YOI 5
Bristol Prison 4
Brixton Prison 8
Camp Hill Prison 1

Place of detention Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action On entry port cases 1 Port of arrival
Campsfield House Immigration
Detention Centre 104 94 Heathrow 64
Gatwick 17
Manchester 3
Harwich 3
Newhaven 2
Stansted 2
Birmingham 1
Dover 1
Ramsgate 1
Canterbury Prison 7 13 Dover 9
Ramsgate 3
Folkestone 1
Cardiff Prison 3
Chelmsford Prison 1 Stansted 1
Cookham Wood Prison 2
Dorchester Prison 2
Dover YOI 8 16 Dover 8
Heathrow 4
Ramsgate 2
Gatwick 1
Portsmouth 1
Dover Harbour Police 9 Ramsgate 5
Dover 3
Folkestone 1
Durham Prison 2
Edinburgh Prison 1
Elmley Prison 3 Ramsgate 2
Dover 1
Exeter Prison 6
Feltham YOI 4 1 Heathrow 1
Gatwick Airport 2 12 Gatwick 11
Heathrow 1
Glenparva YOI 2
Gloucester Prison 3
Greenock Prison 12 1 Glasgow 1
Harmondsworth Immigration
Detention Centre 43 55 Heathrow 35
Gatwick 14
Dover 3
Ramsgate 2
Stansted 1
Haslar Holding Centre 56 59 Heathrow 42
Gatwick 5
Stansted 5
Harwich 3
Portsmouth 2
Manchester 1
Ramsgate 1
Highdown Prison 15 3 Heathrow 3
Holloway Prison 5 3 Gatwick 3
Holme House Prison 2 Teesports 2
Hull Prison 3 Hull 3
Leeds Prison 4
Leicester Prison 1
Lewes Prison 3
Lincoln Prison 1
Liverpool Prison 3
Manchester Airport 2
Manchester Prison 7
Newhaven 2 Heathrow 1
Gatwick 1
Norwich Prison 3 2 Felixstowe 2
Pentonville Prison 23
Queens Building Heathrow 19 Heathrow 19
Reading Remand Centre 3
Risley Prison 1 Leeds/Bradford Airport 1
Shrewsbury Prison 1
Stansted Airport 11 Stansted 4
Heathrow 7
Stoke Heath Prison 1
Swansea Prison 3 1 Swansea 1
Wandsworth Prison 6 1 Gatwick 1
Wellingborough Prison 1

Place of detention Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action On entry port cases 1 Port of arrival
Winchester Prison 3
Wolds Remand Prison 1 Hull 1
Wormwood Scrubs Prison 3 1 Heathrow 1
TOTAL 411 321
1 Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action are not normally apprehended at ports.

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