HC Deb 29 June 1995 vol 262 cc770-1W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons in London which hold foreign nationals on(a) drugs offences and (b) immigration offences. [29544]

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from A. J. Pearson to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 29 June 1995: The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking for a list of the prisons in London which hold foreign nationals on (a) drugs offences and (b) immigration offences. Prison Service establishments in London currently holding foreign nationals for drug offences are: Belmarsh, Brixton, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Holloway and Wormwood Scrubs. The only London establishment which now holds newly detained foreign nationals as immigration detainees is Holloway prison. However, Belmarsh, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs as well as Holloway have some foreign nationals in their custody who have recently completed prison sentences and are now held awaiting deportation or the results of appeals against deportation.

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