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Mr. Corbyn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of arrivals in the United Kingdom refused entry at the port of entry for each year since 1979.
Mr. Renton
The numbers of persons removed from the United Kingdom, after being refused entry at a port, for the years 1979 to 1986 are given in table 4·2 of the Home Office publication "Immigration Nationality and Passports—A Report on the Work of the Departments; October 1987" a copy of which is in the Library. The corresponding figure for 1987 was 19,319.