HC Deb 13 November 1997 vol 300 cc644-6W
Mr. Malins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigration detainees were held in immigration detention centres and HM prisons or other places of detention on the latest date for which figures are available, setting out the number of detainees at each named establishment and their national origin. [14584]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The available information on person held in detention under immigration powers as at 30 September 1997 by place of detention and nationality is given in tables 1 to 3.

Table 1: Persons recorded as being in detention1 solely under Immigration Act powers, by immigration detention centre, as at 30 September 1997
Establishment Total detainees
Campsfield 110
Dover Harbour 8
Harmondsworth 91
Harwich 0
Heathrow's Queen's Building 15
Manchester Airport 9
Tinsley House 149
Total 382
1 Excluding persons detained in police cells.
Table 2: Persons recorded as being in detention1 solely under Immigration Act powers, by prison establishment, as at 30 September 1997
Establishment Total Detainees
Aberdeen 4
Belmarsh 9
Birmingham 7
Blakenhurst 2
Bristol 2
Brixton 14
Bullingdom 12
Canterbury 12
Chelmsford 3
Doncaster 3
Durham 3
Elmley 2
Greenock 5
Haslar 138
High Down 35
Holloway 21
Leeds 8
Lewes 3
Liverpool 5
Longriggend 2
Manchester 3
Norwich 3
Pentonville 5
Reading 2
Rochester 185
Wandsworth 10
Winchester 4
Wormwood Scrubs 14
Others 12
Total 528
Table 3: Person recorded as being in detention1Solely under Immigration Act power, by nationality, as at 30 Septemper 1997
Nationality Total Detainees
Albania 7
Algeria 69
Angola 9
Bangladesh 24
Bulgaria 8
China 41
Columbia 13
Table 3: Persons recorded as being in detention1 solely under Immigration Act powers, by nationality, as at 30 September 1997
Nationality Total Detainees
Cyprus 14
Ecuador 7
Egypt 4
France 4
Gambia 14
Ghana 51
Greece 3
India 144
Iran 7
Israel 3
Ivory Coast 2
Jamaica 33
Kenya 14
Lebanon 6
Liberia 7
Libya 3
Malaysia 2
Morocco 6
Netherlands 3
Nigeria 129
Pakistan 70
Poland 9
Romania 9
Sierra Leone 2
Slovakia 4
Somalia 7
South Africa 6
Spain 2
Sri Lanka 17
St. Lucia 2
Sudan 4
Tanzania 5
Tunisia 3
Turkey 32
Uganda 3
USA 3
Former USSR 14
Venezuela 2
Former Yugoslavia 10
Democratic Republic of Congo 10
Zimbabwe 2
Stateless2 and Nationality Doubtful 8
Other 59
Total 910
1 Excluding persons detained in police cells.
2 Excluding Palestine and Hong Kong stateless persons.