§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy that every woman who is not herself a British citizen but is or has been the wife of a British citizen who is the mother of a child by that husband and the child is a British citizen, will in all but the most exceptional circumstances, be granted a permanent right to abode in the United Kingdom; and if he will give the number of such mothers who have during the last 12 months been refused right of abode in the United Kingdom. [9315]
§ Mr. KirkhopeNo. Each application for leave to remain as the wife of a British citizen is considered in the light of all the relevant circumstance. There are no 585W separate statistics of the number of foreign wives, married to British husbands, with British children, who are refused leave to remain.