HC Deb 20 January 2004 vol 416 cc1219-20W
Mr. Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people visited the United Kingdom from(a) Cameroon, (b) Romania and (c) South Africa in the last year for which figures are available. [147781]

Beverley Hughes

The latest available information is given in the following table.

Passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom as visitors, by nationality, 2002
United Kingdom Number of journeys
Total Ordinary visitor Business visitor
Romania 30,800 11,400 19,300
South Africa 189,000 146,000 42,900

Note:

The figures in this table have been rounded to three significant digits;

because of this the sum of the constituent items may not agree with the total as shown.

Police officer strength1
Rank order Alphabetical order
Police force area March 19972 Police force area March 20032.3 Police force area March 19972 Police force area March 20032.3
Metropolitan Police4 367 Metropolitan Police4 401 Avon and Somerset 204 Avon and Somerset 212
Merseyside 296 West Midlands 303 Bedfordshire 200 Bedfordshire 195
Gwent 275 Merseyside 301 Cambridgeshire 188 Cambridgeshire 195
West Midlands 270 Greater Manchester 296 Cheshire 209 Cheshire 215

I regret that is not possible to identify Cameroon separately in our visitor statistics.

Data on passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom are published in the Command Paper `Control of immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002' (Cm6053), obtainable from the House Library, The Stationery Office and via the Home Office website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hobpubsl.html.

Mr. Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people entered the UK from the USA in the latest year for which figures are available. [148411]

Beverley Hughes

The latest available information shows that a total of 4,220,000 USA nationals were admitted to the United Kingdom during 2002.

Data on passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom are published in the Command Paper `Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002' (Cm 6053), obtainable from the Library, The Stationery Office and via the Home Office website http://www. homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hobpubsl.html