Immigration

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigration cases have been referred to the Minister of State responsible for immigration by right hon. and hon. Members for each year since 1979.

The available information relates to the number of immigration files created following representations by right hon. and hon. Members, and is as follows :

	Number
1979	10,395
1980	10,029
1981	8,945
1982	9,931
1983	11,456
1984	13,164
1985	16,024
1986	17,511
1987	11,842

Notes:

1.These figures include a number of letters dealing with general issues rather than individual cases.

2.Representations made on behalf of a single family may be counted as more than one case where the immigration circumstances of more than one member of the family are under consideration.

3.Further representations made after a reply has been sent are included separately in these figures.

4.Representations received about the same case from more than one right hon. Member or hon. Member are counted separately.

The figures include representations on all categories of immigration cases.

The great majority of these representations were handled by my office and that of my predecessors as Ministers of State.

Volume 131: debated on Tuesday 12 April 1988