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Mr. Marlow
asked the Secretary of of State for the Home Department, in each month of the current year, how many cases of overstayers have been raised; how many overstayers have been apprehended; how many have been allowed to remain subsequent to apprehension; and how many have been deported.
Mr. Raison
Information is not available in the form requested. The following table gives available information for 1979 about the number of inquiries initiated by the special overstayers tracing units in the Home Office to trace possible over-
| Inquiries initiated by the special overstayers tracing units in the Home Office | |||||
| 1979 | Number of inquiries initiated | Number of overstayers traced* | Total deportation Orders made | ||
| January | … | … | Not available | 80 | 98 |
| February | … | … | 2,082 | 142 | 103 |
| March | … | … | 3,213 | 152 | 164 |
| April | … | … | 1,802 | 99 | 90 |
| May | … | … | 2,281 | 101 | 94 |
| June | … | … | 1,911 | 112 | 135 |
| July | … | … | 1,748 | 164 | 95 |
| August | … | … | 1,973 | 174 | 120 |
| September | … | … | 1,676 | 199 | 132 |
| October | … | … | 1,388 | 179 | 74 |
| TOTAL | 18,074 | 1,402 | 1,105 | ||
| *The inquiries about overstayers traced in a particular month may have been initiated in a previous month. | |||||
| Total deportation orders made in the month including those made against people who were not overstayers. A deportation order may relate to an overstayer traced in a previous month. | |||||