HC Deb 25 October 1995 vol 264 cc645-8W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the nationality of(a) men and (b) women who were being held in each prison in England and Wales as at 15 October for immigration offences; [38377]

(2) if he will list the number of (a) men and(b) women who were held in each prison in England and Wales as of 15 October, for immigration offences. [38389]

Miss Widdecombe

Responsibility for these matters has been delegated to the temporary director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Cox, dated 25 October 1995:

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Questions about the nationality and number of (a) men and (b) women who were held in each prison in England and Wales as of 15 October, for immigration offences.The latest available provisional information is for 30 September 1995 and is given in the attached table, a copy of which will be placed in the Library of the House.

Population of immigration detainees in prison service establishments in England and Wales on 30 September 1995, by nationality1
Nationality Number
Males
Belmarsh 14
Cyprus 1
Jamaica 3
Nigeria 3
Not known 1
Pakistan 1
Sierre Leone 1
Turkey 4
Birmingham 64
Algeria 1
Bangladesh 3
China 5
Dominica 1
Gambia 1
India 34
Iran 1
Jamaica 3
Nigeria 2
Pakistan 9
South Africa 1
Turkey 1
Uganda 1
USSR 1
Blakenhurst 2
Jamaica 1
Morocco 1
Bristol 6
Bangladesh 1
Algeria 1
Jamaica 2
Nigeria 1
Tajikistan 1
Brixton 9
Bulgaria 1
Gambia 2
India 1
Pakistan 1
Population of immigration detainees in prison service establishments in England and Wales on 30 September 1995, by nationality1
Nationality Number
USSR 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
Uganda 1
United States of America 1
Canterbury 4
Libya 1
Nigeria 2
Turkey 1
Cardiff 2
Nigeria 2
Dorchester 1
Jamaica 1
Doncaster 3
Columbia 1
Jamaica 1
Not known 1
Elmley 2
Algeria 2
Exeter 2
Benin 1
Sierre Leone 1
Feltham 1
Jamaica 1
Haslar 106
Albania 1
Algeria 4
Angola 1
Bangladesh 3
China 17
Ecuador 2
Egypt 1
Ethiopia 1
Ghana 10
Guyana 1
India 17
Iraq 3
Jamaica 1
Kenya 2
Lebanon 1
Liberia 5
Morocco 2
Niger 1
Nigeria 18
Romania 3
Sierra Leone 2
Sri Lanka 1
Sudan 1
Turkey 1
Uganda 2
USSR 2
Yugoslavia 2
Zaire 1
Highdown 8
Barbados 1
Ghana 1
Grenada 1
Jamaica 1
Nigeria 4
Population of immigration detainees in prison service establishments in England and Wales on 30 September 1995, by nationality1
Nationality Number
Hindley 1
Bangladesh 1
Holme House 2
Algeria 1
Nigeria 1
Leeds 7
Bangladesh 1
India 2
Pakistan 3
Turkey 1
Lincoln 1
Nigeria 1
Liverpool 7
Albania 1
Algeria 1
Israel 1
Liberia 1
Morocco 2
Not known 1
Manchester 1
United States of America 1
Pentonville 3
Algeria 1
Jamaica 1
Malaysia 1
Preston 1
Not known 1
Rochester 189
Algeria 43
Angola 1
Bangladesh 2
China 10
Ghana 12
India 35
Iran 1
Iraq 1
Jamaica 4
Kenya 2
Lebanon 2
Liberia 3
Libya 2
Mauritius 1
Morocco 3
Nigeria 16
Not known 3
Pakistan 6
Poland 1
Portugal 1
Romania 11
Serbia 1
Sierra Leone 1
South Africa 1
Sri Lanka 2
Switzerland 2
Tanzania 2
Tunisia 1
Turkey 7
Uganda 1
Yugoslavia 2
Zaire 9
Wandsworth 10
Jamaica 1
Population of immigration detainees in prison service establishments in England and Wales on 30 September 1995, by nationality1
Nationality Number
Chile 1
Kenya 1
Algeria 2
India 3
Nigeria 1
Ghana 1
The Wolds 3
Algeria 3
Wormwood Scrubs 3
Columbia 1
Ethiopia 1
Nigeria 1
Females
Holloway 3
Nigeria 1
Not known 1
India 1
Total 455
1 Provisional figures.