HC Deb 17 July 2002 vol 389 cc398-9W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons arriving at a port of entry(a) from Zimbabwe and (b) claiming to be citizens of Zimbabwe from another port of embarkation have been refused entry by immigration officers and returned to Zimbabwe in the last six months for which figures are available. [69081]

Beverley Hughes

The available information relates to the number of Zimbabwean nationals refused leave to enter the United Kingdom and removed. The latest six months for which data is available is for July to December 2000, and is shown in the table.

Information on the original port of embarkation, and the destination of persons removed from the United Kingdom is only available by examination of individual case files at disproportionate cost.

2002 Zimbabwean nationals refused entry to the United Kingdom and removed1
July 110
August 130
September 160

2002 Zimbabwean nationals refused entry to the United Kingdom and removed1
October 170
November 220
December 300
Total refused and removed July-December 2000 1,090

1Includes persons departing 'voluntarily' after enforcement action has been initiated against them and persons leaving under Assisted Voluntarily Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). All figures are rounded to nearest five.

Information on the number of people refused leave to enter the United Kingdom and removed during 2001 will be published later this year in the Command paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2001", and will be available from the Library and the website of the Research Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigrationl.html