§ Mr. MalinsTo 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]
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§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe 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 646W
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.