HC Deb 19 March 1999 vol 327 cc833-4W
Mr. Malins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigration detainees there were at the latest date for which figures are available in (i) immigration detention centres and (ii) prison establishments who(a) had been convicted of a criminal offence in the UK, (b) were awaiting removal following a recommendation for deportation made by a court, (c) were awaiting removal having exhausted all appeal rights and (d) who were not within the above categories. [76614]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The available information, on all persons detained solely under Immigration Act powers in immigration detention centres and prisons in the United Kingdom as at 31 January 1999, is given in the table. The detailed information requested can be obtained only through the examination of individual case records and is, therefore, available only at disproportionate cost.

Persons recorded as being in detention1 in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers as at 31 January 1999 by place of detention
Location Total detainees
Immigration detention centres
Campsfield 183
Dover Harbour 15
Harmondsworth 91
Heathrow's Queen's Building 15
Manchester Airport 16
Tinsley House 147
Prison establishments
Bedford 2
Belmarsh 16
Blakenhurst 3
Brixton 8
Bullingdon 2
Canterbury 10
Dorchester 3
Edinburgh 5
Feltham 2
Haslar 130
High Down 23
Holloway 15
Holme House 3
Leeds 2
Lewes 2
Longriggend 16
Maghabberry 2
Magilligan 7
Manchester 3
Norwich 3
Pentonville 6
Rochester 191
Swansea 2
Wandsworth 9
Woodhill 2
Wormwood Scrubs 16
Other prison establishments 12
Total 962
1 Excluding persons detained in police cells (other than at Dover)