To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out in detail the grounds on which the Government are unwilling to admit into the UK detainees at Guantanamo whom the US is willing to release and who have UK residency but not UK citizenship. (109911)

[holding answer 19 December 2006]: The Government have not said they are unwilling to admit any of the people currently detained in Guantanamo who formerly had indefinite leave to remain in this country.

We have consistently made it clear that any application any of them may make to be allowed to return to the United Kingdom will be considered in the light of the circumstances at the material time.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his assessment is of the implications for UK immigration policy and immigration controls if the Government accepted back into the UK Guantanamo detainees who are British residents but not British citizens. (109912)

[holding answer 19 December 2006]: None. We have made it clear that any application they may make for leave to enter the United Kingdom will be considered in the normal way in the light of the circumstances at the material time.