§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women whose spouses joined them in the UK from Pakistan but have subsequently been abandoned have made representations to him in the last year for which figures are available to have their spouses deported; and if he will make a statement. [178248]
§ Mr. BrowneInformation on the number of representations from women whose spouses joined them in the UK from Pakistan but have subsequently abandoned them is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, if a foreign spouse is encountered whose marriage has broken down and who no longer enjoys the support of their sponsor, then the Immigration Service would take all appropriate measures to return them to their country of origin unless these were compelling reasons for not doing so.