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Visa Applications
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the number of visa applications made at each High Commission from 1985 to 30 June 1988 and the number of refusals in each case.
Mr. Eggar : The number of applications made are not available. The numbers of entry clearances for the United Kingdom issued at high commissions in 1985, 1986 and 1987 are as listed. The numbers of refusals are available only for 1987. Statistics for 1988 are not yet available.
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1985 1986 1987
|Issues |Refusals|Issues |Refusals|Issues |Refusals
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Canberra, Australia |4,284 |n/a |4,773 |n/a |5,685 |27
Brisbane |2,185 |n/a |2,038 |n/a |1,620 |2
Melbourne |4,385 |n/a |5,037 |n/a |3,762 |-
Perth |1,708 |n/a |1,771 |n/a |2,142 |11
Sydney |6,959 |n/a |4,946 |n/a |1,115 |5
Nassau, Bahamas |527 |n/a |400 |n/a |290 |-
Dhaka, Bangladesh |8,139 |n/a |6,752 |n/a |11,197 |5,145
Bridgetown, Barbados |4,222 |n/a |3,239 |n/a |2,716 |130
Belmopan, Belize |187 |n/a |363 |n/a |139 |-
Gabarone |442 |n/a |550 |n/a |652 |-
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei |2,693 |n/a |2,183 |n/a |1,965 |3
Ottowa, Canada |4,536 |n/a |6,415 |n/a |8,093 |-
Edmonton |449 |n/a |468 |n/a |467 |-
Montreal |315 |n/a |169 |n/a |285 |-
Toronto |715 |n/a |1,074 |n/a |1,064 |1
Vancouver |572 |n/a |533 |n/a |265 |-
Nicosia, Cyprus |9,629 |n/a |8,141 |n/a |7,820 |306
Suva, Fiji |860 |n/a |757 |n/a |592 |51
Banjul, Gambia |1,137 |n/a |1,139 |n/a |1,165 |22
Accra, Ghana |1,382 |n/a |4,165 |n/a |9,198 |2,250
Georgetown, Guyana |1,954 |n/a |3,159 |n/a |1,487 |99
New Delhi, India |1,895 |n/a |9,607 |n/a |38,306 |4,247
Bombay |4,046 |n/a |25,728 |n/a |42,649 |1,040
Calcutta |1,283 |n/a |2,556 |n/a |7,872 |102
Madras |n/a |n/a |1,463 |n/a |9,428 |218
Kingston, Jamaica |4,064 |n/a |4,221 |n/a |3,166 |706
Nairobi, Kenya |4,355 |n/a |3,302 |n/a |3,106 |83
Lilongwe, Malawi |419 |n/a |300 |n/a |500 |3
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |9,275 |n/a |9,371 |n/a |9,174 |232
Valletta, Malta |1,196 |n/a |1,056 |n/a |1,255 |26
Port Louis, Mauritius |4,375 |n/a |2,751 |n/a |2,762 |237
Auckland, New Zealand |9,516 |n/a |6,029 |n/a |4,061 |n/a
Lagos, Nigeria |7,491 |n/a |9,388 |n/a |42,920 |3,545
Kaduna |2,235 |n/a |6,280 |n/a |8,940 |549
Port Moresby, Papua New
Guinea |387 |n/a |399 |n/a |403 |1
Singapore |10,885 |n/a |8,637 |n/a |9,695 |13
Victoria, Seychelles |528 |n/a |152 |n/a |161 |2
Freetown, Sierra Leone |3,076 |n/a |2,849 |n/a |2,520 |118
Honiara, Solomon Islands |85 |n/a |61 |n/a |98 |-
Colombo, Sri Lanka |7,153 |n/a |8,103 |n/a |7,488 |860
Mbabane, Swaziland |36 |n/a |34 |n/a |48 |-
Dae es Salaam, Tanzania |2,196 |n/a |1,980 |n/a |1,693 |50
Nuku'alofa, Tonga |19 |n/a |32 |n/a |17 |-
Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago |4,535 |n/a |2,891 |n/a |2,489 |92
Kampala, Uganda |571 |n/a |543 |n/a |596 |11
Vila, Vanuatu |81 |n/a |30 |n/a |79 |-
Lusaka, Zambia |1,756 |n/a |1,120 |n/a |1,847 |4
Harare, Zimbabwe |320 |n/a |518 |n/a |726 |34
n/a=not available.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on initiatives currently planned by Her Majesty's Government in preparation for the 1990 nuclear non -proliferation treaty review conference.
Mr. Waldegrave : We intend to play an active role in the 1990 review conference of the non-proliferation treaty and in the preparations for it. With our co-depositary powers and other parties to the treaty we co- sponsored the United Nations resolution notifying the Secretary-General that the conference will take place. The parties have established a preparatory committee for the conference and we are in the process of discussing practical arrangements with other treaty partners.
We have informed the United Nations Secretariat that the United Kingdom is prepared to make an advance payment in the first quarter of 1989 of £100,000, a sum equivalent to virtually the whole of the estimated final
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proportion of the costs of the conference to be borne by this country. We have appealed to other parties to the treaty to consider making similar advance payments.Nuclear Safeguards
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if any request has been received by his Department to submit evidence on the implementation of nuclear safeguards in the European Economic Community before the Bundestag special inquiry commission on nuclear materials oversight, held in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to arrange a meeting with the European proliferation information centre to discuss and evaluate recent reports and publications asserting problems in international nuclear safeguards implementation.
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Entry Applications
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for each country (a) the number of applications for entry to the United Kingdom (b) the number of refusals and (c) the number of appeals made (i) successfully and (ii) unsuccessfully in each of the last two years.
Mr. Eggar : Figures relating to entry clearances issued for 1986 and 1987 are as follows. Numbers of total applications made are not available. Statistics of applicants refused in individual countries have been kept only since January 1987. Details of appeals are not recorded centrally by individual nationality in all cases but Commands 166 and 415, "Control of Immigration Statistics," at table 5, give a limited breakdown of the numbers of appeals allowed, dismissed and withdrawn for the years 1986 and 1987 respectively.
Table 5
Appeals to immigration adjudicators-1986
Number of appellants
Nationality of
||18appellants
Bangladesh India Pakistan European Community Other nationalities All nationalities
Appeal category |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn
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Exclusion
Appeal at port |1 |22 |3 |1 |- |1 |- |3 |3 |- |- |- |5 |41 |26 |7 |66 |33
External appeal |2 |46 |7 |2 |36 |10 |12 |44 |7 |2 |28 |8 |37 |434 |61 |55 |588 |93
Refusal of certificate of
entitlement |- |10 |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |8 |9 |1 |19 |9
Refusal of entry clearance
for:
Temporary purposes |30 |88 |13 |23 |45 |14 |7 |20 |3 |- |- |1 |248 |594 |183 |308 |747 |214
Employment, business or
independent means |1 |1 |2 |1 |5 |1 |1 |6 |1 |1 |3 |1 |6 |34 |24 |10 |49 |29
Wives, children and
persons for immedi-
ate settlement |886 |1,697 |291 |64 |113 |49 |307 |527 |175 |1 |2 |1 |73 |227 |120 |1,331 |2,566 |636
Female fiancees |- |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |1 |3 |8 |2 |3 |9
Husbands |18 |13 |1 |36 |85 |19 |36 |42 |15 |- |1 |- |3 |13 |4 |93 |154 |39
Male fiances |1 |1 |1 |89 |197 |60 |148 |202 |58 |- |- |1 |3 |13 |5 |241 |413 |125
Variation of landing
conditions |- |4 |- |- |19 |3 |- |3 |6 |- |16 |2 |12 |87 |95 |12 |129 |106
Refusal to vary leave to
enter |6 |48 |34 |18 |196 |120 |30 |141 |120 |2 |35 |35 |189 |1,341 |1,289 |245 |1,761 |1,598
Decision to make a
deportation order |1 |3 |- |1 |32 |8 |1 |17 |4 |- |1 |5 |23 |187 |78 |26 |240 |95
Refusal to revoke a
deportation order |- |1 |- |- |3 |- |1 |1 |1 |- |2 |- |2 |28 |3 |3 |35 |4
Giving of removal
directions |1 |3 |- |- |4 |- |- |2 |- |- |- |- |- |26 |5 |1 |35 |5
Destination only |- |1 |- |- |4 |1 |- |4 |- |- |1 |- |- |52 |19 |- |62 |20
All appeals |947 |1,938 |353 |235 |740 |286 |544 |1,012 |393 |6 |89 |54 |603 |3,088 |1,929 |2,335 |6,867 |3,015
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Table 5
Appeals to immigration adjudicators-1986
Number of appellants
Nationality of
||18appellants
Bangladesh India Pakistan European Community Other nationalities All nationalities
Appeal category |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn
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Exclusion
Appeal at port |1 |22 |3 |1 |- |1 |- |3 |3 |- |- |- |5 |41 |26 |7 |66 |33
External appeal |2 |46 |7 |2 |36 |10 |12 |44 |7 |2 |28 |8 |37 |434 |61 |55 |588 |93
Refusal of certificate of
entitlement |- |10 |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |8 |9 |1 |19 |9
Refusal of entry clearance
for:
Temporary purposes |30 |88 |13 |23 |45 |14 |7 |20 |3 |- |- |1 |248 |594 |183 |308 |747 |214
Employment, business or
independent means |1 |1 |2 |1 |5 |1 |1 |6 |1 |1 |3 |1 |6 |34 |24 |10 |49 |29
Wives, children and
persons for immedi-
ate settlement |886 |1,697 |291 |64 |113 |49 |307 |527 |175 |1 |2 |1 |73 |227 |120 |1,331 |2,566 |636
Female fiancees |- |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |1 |3 |8 |2 |3 |9
Husbands |18 |13 |1 |36 |85 |19 |36 |42 |15 |- |1 |- |3 |13 |4 |93 |154 |39
Male fiances |1 |1 |1 |89 |197 |60 |148 |202 |58 |- |- |1 |3 |13 |5 |241 |413 |125
Variation of landing
conditions |- |4 |- |- |19 |3 |- |3 |6 |- |16 |2 |12 |87 |95 |12 |129 |106
Refusal to vary leave to
enter |6 |48 |34 |18 |196 |120 |30 |141 |120 |2 |35 |35 |189 |1,341 |1,289 |245 |1,761 |1,598
Decision to make a
deportation order |1 |3 |- |1 |32 |8 |1 |17 |4 |- |1 |5 |23 |187 |78 |26 |240 |95
Refusal to revoke a
deportation order |- |1 |- |- |3 |- |1 |1 |1 |- |2 |- |2 |28 |3 |3 |35 |4
Giving of removal
directions |1 |3 |- |- |4 |- |- |2 |- |- |- |- |- |26 |5 |1 |35 |5
Destination only |- |1 |- |- |4 |1 |- |4 |- |- |1 |- |- |52 |19 |- |62 |20
All appeals |947 |1,938 |353 |235 |740 |286 |544 |1,012 |393 |6 |89 |54 |603 |3,088 |1,929 |2,335 |6,867 |3,015
Table 5
Appeals to immigration adjudicators-1986
Number of appellants
Nationality of
||18appellants
Bangladesh India Pakistan European Community Other nationalities All nationalities
Appeal category |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn |Allowed |Dismissed |Withdrawn
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Exclusion
Appeal at port |1 |22 |3 |1 |- |1 |- |3 |3 |- |- |- |5 |41 |26 |7 |66 |33
External appeal |2 |46 |7 |2 |36 |10 |12 |44 |7 |2 |28 |8 |37 |434 |61 |55 |588 |93
Refusal of certificate of
entitlement |- |10 |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |8 |9 |1 |19 |9
Refusal of entry clearance
for:
Temporary purposes |30 |88 |13 |23 |45 |14 |7 |20 |3 |- |- |1 |248 |594 |183 |308 |747 |214
Employment, business or
independent means |1 |1 |2 |1 |5 |1 |1 |6 |1 |1 |3 |1 |6 |34 |24 |10 |49 |29
Wives, children and
persons for immedi-
ate settlement |886 |1,697 |291 |64 |113 |49 |307 |527 |175 |1 |2 |1 |73 |227 |120 |1,331 |2,566 |636
Female fiancees |- |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |1 |3 |8 |2 |3 |9
Husbands |18 |13 |1 |36 |85 |19 |36 |42 |15 |- |1 |- |3 |13 |4 |93 |154 |39
Male fiances |1 |1 |1 |89 |197 |60 |148 |202 |58 |- |- |1 |3 |13 |5 |241 |413 |125
Variation of landing
conditions |- |4 |- |- |19 |3 |- |3 |6 |- |16 |2 |12 |87 |95 |12 |129 |106
Refusal to vary leave to
enter |6 |48 |34 |18 |196 |120 |30 |141 |120 |2 |35 |35 |189 |1,341 |1,289 |245 |1,761 |1,598
Decision to make a
deportation order |1 |3 |- |1 |32 |8 |1 |17 |4 |- |1 |5 |23 |187 |78 |26 |240 |95
Refusal to revoke a
deportation order |- |1 |- |- |3 |- |1 |1 |1 |- |2 |- |2 |28 |3 |3 |35 |4
Giving of removal
directions |1 |3 |- |- |4 |- |- |2 |- |- |- |- |- |26 |5 |1 |35 |5
Destination only |- |1 |- |- |4 |1 |- |4 |- |- |1 |- |- |52 |19 |- |62 |20
All appeals |947 |1,938 |353 |235 |740 |286 |544 |1,012 |393 |6 |89 |54 |603 |3,088 |1,929 |2,335 |6,867 |3,015
Emission Controls (Crown Immunity)
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will be seeking Crown immunity from prosecution for the institutions which are the responsibility of his Department when the anticipated new controls on emissions come into operation.
Mr. Eggar : I refer to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's reply on Tuesday 29 November at column 178 . My Department has no plans to seek removal of Crown immunity in relation to the proposed air pollution regulations.
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Political Prisoners (Iran)
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the Government of Iran concerning the recent spate of executions of political prisoners.
Mr. Waldegrave : The reports of executions are a matter of concern to the Government. We have consistently condemned such violations of human rights in Iran. We look to the Iranian authorities to co-operate with the United Nations special representative so that he can investigate these and other allegations of human rights abuses.
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Pakistan Foreign Minister
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to meet the new Foreign Minister of Pakistan.
Mr. Eggar : When a new Foreign Minister of Pakistan is appointed, my right hon. and learned Friend hopes to have an early opportunity to meet him or her.
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Environment (International Action)
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to promote and co-ordinate international action to conserve the environment.
Mr. Eggar : We are in close touch with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment who has the primary responsibility for international action on environmental issues.
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