§ Mr. LitherlandTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been detained at Manchester airport under Immigration Act powers in the last two years;
(2) how many people were detained on entry at Manchester airport over the past two years; and what was their country of origin;
(3) how many people detained at Manchester airport under Immigration Act powers were subsequently transferred to other detention centres or prisons over the past two years.
§ Mr. Nicholas BakerThe available information set out shows the number of people detained at Manchester airport overnight or longer broken down by nationality. Of these, 94 were detained on entry in 1994 and an estimated 82 in 1993. The other information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.690W
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Country 1993 1994 Not determined/stateless 27 32 Afghanistan 3 5 Albania 3 — Algeria 20 34 Angola 1 7 Antigua — 1 Argentina — 1 Australia 3 1 Austria 2 — Bangladesh 27 33 Bermuda 1 — Brazil 1 1 Bulgaria 1 1 Cameroon 3 — Canada 4 1 China 6 6 Colombia 7 4 Congo 1 — Croatia 3 — Cyprus 3 2 Czechoslovakia — 4 Dominican Republic 1 — Ecuador 3 — Egypt 1 3 Gambia 11 13 Ghana 15 28 Guyana 1 — Hong Kong 21 13 Hungary 1 1 India 153 244 Iran 1 7 Iraq — 1 Israel 6 — Ivory Coast 3 1 Jamaica 19 20 Japan — 10 Jordan 1 1 Kenya 2 2 Latvia 1 — Lebanon 1 2 Liberia 2 — Libya 1 –1 Lithuania — 4 Malawi 2 — Malaysia 21 18 Malta 2 — Mauritius 1 1 Mexico — 3 Morocco 3 4 Nepal 4 — New Zealand 2 — Nigeria 36 49 Pakistan 127 184 Peru 2 2 Philippines 7 1 Poland 4 9 Portugal 3 — Romania 3 2 Russia 3 2 St. Lucia — 1 St. Vincent and Grenada 1 — Senegal 1 — Sierra Leone 3 6 Singapore 1 1 Somalia 2 6 South Africa 9 7 South Korea — 1 Spain — 1 Sri Lanka 10 24 Switzerland — 1 Syria 2 — Tanzania 1 6 Thailand 2 1 Togo 2 —
Country 1993 1994 Trinidad and Tobago 1 — Tunisia 5 2 Turkey 23 72 Uganda 2 — Ukraine — 3 United Arab Emirates 1 — USA 7 7 Yemen 4 1 Yugoslavia — 2 Zaire 4 4 Zambia 2 1 Zimbabwe — 2 Total 663 918