HC Deb 27 January 1997 vol 289 cc4-6W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were deported under Immigration Act powers from the United Kingdom in (i) October, (ii) November and (iii) December; and what were their nationalities. [12328]

Mr. Kirkhope

The information requested for October 1996 is given in the table. Reliable information for subsequent months is not yet available.

Persons removed1 from the United Kingdom under the deportation process2
Nationality October 19963
European Economic Area
Italy 1
Netherlands 1
Other Europe
Bulgaria 1
Cyprus 1
Former Czechoslovakia 1
Hungary 1
Malta 1
Poland 5
Russia 1
Other former USSR 5
Turkey 5
Former Yugoslavia 8
Americas
Brazil 1
Colombia 3
Jamaica 8
Trinidad and Tobago 1
USA 3
Venezuela 1
Other Americas 4
Africa
Algeria 1
Angola 1
Egypt 2
Ghana 12
Kenya 1
Morocco 2
Nigeria 19
Sierra Leone 2
South Africa 5
Tanzania 1
Tunisia 2
Uganda 1
Zambia 2
Zimbabwe 5
Other Africa 10
Indian sub-continent
Bangladesh 5
India 16
Pakistan 15
Middle East
Lebanon 1
Remainder of Asia
Hong Kong 1
Malaysia 4
Singapore 1
South Korea 1
Thailand 1
Persons removed1 from the United Kingdom under the deportation process2
Nationality October 19963
Oceania
New Zealand 2
Not known 4
All nationalities 169
1 Including voluntary departures after deportation action had been initiated.
2 Excluding illegal entrants removed.
3 Provisional data.

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons who had completed their prison sentences were detained further under Immigration Act powers; and for how long each was detained in each of the last three years. [12331]

Mr. Kirkhope

The information requested is not available centrally.

Dr. Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who were convicted of a criminal offence, punishable by a person sentence, but not served with a deportation order as part of the sentence, were at a later date served with a notice of deportation in each of the last three years. [12329]

Mr. Kirkhope

The total numbers of notices of intention to deport issued in respect of a convicted criminal on the grounds that the person's continued presence in the United Kingdom was not conducive to the public good, were 125 in 1994, 79 in 1995, and 80—provisional figure—in the period January to September 1996. Data for the whole of 1996 are not yet available. Separate data on those criminals who had served a prison sentence, and those who had not, could be provided only at disproportionate cost.