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Illegal Immigrants

Volume 270: debated on Monday 22 January 1996

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the outcome of the incidents involving illegal immigrants arriving at Gatwick in December 1993 absconding. [10469]

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons arriving at United Kingdom ports of entry have been allowed to go to temporary addresses in each of the last five years; and how many have absconded in each year. [10459]

The information available is given in the table.

Passengers at United Kingdom ports of entry
Passengers granted temporary admission Passengers who absconded1
199113,220601
199216,967530
199319,063667
199419,3271,240
19952 323,0841,577
1 Either from temporary admission or detention or the control area at ports. The time period relates to when the passenger was recorded as an absconder, not when the passenger entered the country.
2 January to October.
3 Data for 1995 are provisional.