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Mr. Alton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many searches of the national joint unit records were undertaken following a request by police officers at ports of entry in each year from 1980 to 1989, inclusive.
Mr. Waddington
[holding answer 17 January 1990]: The information requested is not recorded separately. The number of searches of national joint unit records following requests from police officers either at ports of entry or elsewhere was as follows:
| Number | |
| 1980 | 48,090 |
| 1981 | 50,687 |
| 1982 | 44,696 |
| 1983 | 44,906 |
| 1984 | 47,779 |
| 1985 | 55,328 |
| 1986 | 59,481 |
| 1987 | 81,060 |
| 1988 | 77,472 |
| 1989 | 101,766 |