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Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will conduct an urgent review of the funding arrangements of drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
Mr. Yeo : We have no plans at present to conduct such a review.
Schizophrenia
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 17 February, to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam Lady Olga Maitland, Official Report , column 202 , if she will make it a requirement to register patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Mr. Yeo : We have no plans for this type of registration. District health authorities, in collaboration with local social services departments, are required to initiate individually tailored care programmes for all in-patients about to be discharged from mental illness hospitals and all new patients accepted by the specialist psychiatric services.
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what communications she has had with the World Health Organisation on schizophrenia.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Department has regular contact with the World Health Organisation to discuss issues of common concern and exchange information on mental health issues including schizophrenia.
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Care Providers
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to establish minimum national standards of care for care providers.
Mr. Yeo : Standards in social care are set in legislation, in codes of practice and formal guidance, and increasingly through contract specification. There are no plans to replace this wide range of controls with a single set of national minimum standards.
Community Care
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans she has to monitor the way community care is being implemented in practice ;
(2) if she has any plans to review the amount of money that has been allocated to local authorities to provide community care.
Mr. Yeo : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) on 10 November 1992, column 772 .
Health Visitors
Ms Abbott : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what security measures will be adopted to protect health visitors who visit drug or alcohol users in their homes as part of the community care programme ; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : The security measures provided to support health visitors in the course of their employment are a matter for their employing authorities. We would expect procedures to be agreed locally to take account of all potentially dangerous situations.
Hospital Services
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research is being undertaken or commissioned by her Department or the NHS management executive on the possibility of charging for any hospital services.
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to monitor the availability of drug and alcohol rehabilitation services following the full implementation of community care.
Mr. Yeo : Goldsmiths' college has been commissioned to undertake a special exercise to monitor the impact of community care on independent sector providers of services to alcohol and drugs misusers. Monthly progress reports will ensure that the Government have information on how these service providers will be affected by the implementation of community care.
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures she is taking to ensure that guidance issued by her Department to local authorities regarding assessment, admission and fast track procedures for people with drug and alcohol problems is being adhered to.
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Mr. Yeo : Two guidance circulars have been issued to local authorities which address the needs of this client group : LAC(93)2, which encourages local authorities to pay particular attention to the needs of alcohol and drug misusers within community care, and LAC(93)7, which addresses the question of local authority responsibility for clients whose "ordinary residence" is in their area.
In addition we have asked the local authority associations to collaborate with independent sector providers in the development of good practice advice on fast track assessment and out-of-area referrals. This was circulated to local authorities on 26 March 1993.
The performance of local authorities in implementing community care is being monitored by the social services inspectorate.
Needs Assessment
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to rescind guidelines that were issued to local authorities that the extent of a person's needs should not be assessed unless those needs could be met.
Mr. Yeo : No such guidelines have been issued.
Miss Gibelli
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what inquiries she has made into the circumstances under which Miss Gibelli (a) was taken into a public house and (b) escaped whilst on a visit to the ideal home exhibition while under the secure custody of her Department.
Mr. Yeo : As soon as officials from the national health service management executive were made aware of these events they contacted clinicians and managers and obtained full details of the circumstances of the two incidents referred to. Ministers have been kept informed.
AIDS
Mr. Dowd : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each London borough bid for AIDS support grant for 1993-94 ; and how much they were awarded.
Mr. Sackville : The information is shown in the table. For comparison purposes, details of 1992-93 allocations are also provided.
|1993-94 |1993-94 |1992-93
|Bid |Allocation|Allocation
|£ |£ |£
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Barking and Dagenham |28,396 |28,000 |32,236
Barnet |45,277 |40,000 |40,000
Bexley |47,643 |46,000 |46,000
Brent |429,500 |400,000 |400,000
Bromley |43,260 |30,000 |10,500
Camden |745,396 |745,000 |730,000
City of London |49,990 |47,000 |47,000
Croydon |88,406 |49,000 |49,000
Ealing |311,200 |290,000 |290,000
Enfield |74,170 |50,000 |50,000
Greenwich |348,025 |190,000 |190,000
Hackney |549,200 |468,000 |460,000
Hammersmith and
Fulham |1,155,000 |1,155,000 |1,129,000
Haringey |593,522 |562,000 |500,000
Harrow |45,960 |42,000 |42,000
Havering |16,100 |16,000 |-
Hillingdon |369,330 |120,000 |120,000
Hounslow |423,967 |320,000 |320,000
Islington |475,693 |360,000 |360,000
Kensington and Chelsea |1,041,000 |988,000 |970,000
Kingston Upon Thames |43,871 |43,000 |64,000
Lambeth |1,341,600 |948,000 |930,000
Lewisham |299,000 |245,000 |240,000
Merton |118,146 |66,000 |66,000
Newham |411,248 |300,000 |250,000
Redbridge |56,371 |30,000 |15,374
Richmond Upon Thames |225,000 |220,000 |200,000
Southwark |451,200 |355,000 |300,000
Sutton |67,916 |57,000 |57,000
Tower Hamlets |609,300 |500,000 |481,000
Waltham Forest |288,680 |140,000 |135,000
Wandsworth |215,614 |190,000 |188,000
Westminster |988,838 |958,000 |940,000
Administrative Costs
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the administrative costs in each of the national health service regions in each year since 1987-88 (a) in cash prices, (b) in 1987-88 prices and (c) as a percentage of total expenditure.
Mr. Sackville [holding answer 17 March 1993] : Figures for headquarters administration for hospital and community health services in England have been placed in the Library.
The figures for 1991-92 are provisional and are not comparable with those for earlier years. They include health authorities' expenditure on the purchaser function and, for some regions, other significant costs.
Wolds Prison
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which prison service practice or procedures are not required to be followed by the contractor under the terms of the contract of HM prison Wolds.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14 April 1993. PRISON SERVICE PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES AT HM PRISON WOLDS The Secretary of State has asked me to write to you directly in reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking which Prison Service practices or procedures do not have to be followed by the contractor at HM Prison Wolds.
2. In response to an earlier Question answered on 23 March, the Minister of State supplied you with a list of Prison Service practices and procedures which Wolds management must follow under the contract. The contractor is bound by the Prison Act 1952, the Criminal Justice Act 1991, the Prison Rules 1964 as amended and the contract. But beyond those items listed in the earlier reply, which are mandatory under the contract, he does not have to follow any other Prison Service practices or procedures. These are numerous and are contained in standing orders, circular instructions, various manuals and other forms of advice to governors. I am afraid that we do not have a consolidated compilation of all this material and it would not be practicable to list it all out. It is up to contractors to draw up their own such instructions.
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Foreign Nationals
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals were held (a) on remand and (b) sentenced in each prison in March ; what proportion of these were men ; and how many came from (i) Nigeria, (ii) Ghana, (iii) other African countries, (iv) Columbia, (v) other South and Central American countries, (vi) India, (vii) Pakistan, (viii) Bangladesh, (ix) the Irish Republic, (x) the United States of America, (xi) the Netherlands, (xii) other European countries, (xiii) the middle east and (xiv) Jamaica.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April 1993. I have been asked to reply to your question about the numbers of unconvicted and sentenced men and women in our prisons broken down by nationality.
The latest available provisional figures are for 28 February and are given in the table, which has been placed in the Library.
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals were in British prisons for drug-related offences in March ; and what proportion this represents of all those in prison for drugs-related offences.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April 1993. I have been asked to reply to your question about foreign nationals in British prisons for drugs-related offences.
The latest available provisional figures are for 28 February and cover just over 90 per cent. of the prison population. On that date about 680 foreign nationals were recorded centrally as being under sentence for drugs offences in England and Wales, excluding any where drugs offences were not the principal offence. They accounted for 27 per cent. of the total population under sentence for drugs offences. The nationality of some further 70 prisoners under sentence for drugs offences was not recorded.
Prisoners
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to implement the recommendation in the Woolf report that there should be a new prison rule that no establishment should hold prisoners in excess of its certified normal accommodation ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April 1993 : The Home Secretary has asked me to write to you in response to your Parliamentary Question, for priority written answer on 14 April, on the implementation of the Woolf report recommendation on overcrowding.
The recommendation was for there to be a Prison Rule that no establishment should hold more prisoners than is
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provided for in its certified normal level of accommodation, with provision for Parliament to be informed if exceptionally there is to be a material departure from that rule. It was decided however that it would not be practicable to operate such a system at this stage. Instead the Prison Service has improved the overcrowding information provided for Parliament (see annexes 4 and 5 of the Report of the Work of the Prison Service April 1991-March 1992, cm 2087). As the white paper on Custody, Care and Justice (cm 1647) explained, the Prison Service plans to provide an estate able to operate in equilibrium without particular prisons or areas suffering from overcrowding. A significant improvement in the situation has already taken place. There are at present nearly 3,000 vacancies in the estate as a whole. Overcrowding is now largely confined to the older local prisons and remand centres and further expansion of this part of the estate is planned. In addition the actual level of overcrowding being experienced has been greatly reduced in recent years. The Prison Service's business plan also includes a commitment to end trebling in cells by the end of March 1994.Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Indian, (b) Pakistani, (c) Bangladeshi, (d) Afro-Caribbean and (e) other ethnic minority people were (i) on remand and (ii) sentenced in each prison in March ; and how many in each case were (x) men and (y) women.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April 1993. I have been asked to reply to your question about numbers of unconvicted and convicted men and women in our prisons broken down by nationality.
The latest available provisional figures are for 28 February and are given in the table which has been placed in the Library.
Woolf Report
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to date to implement the recommendations of the Woolf report ; and what steps he intends to take to implement its outstanding recommendations.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April 1993. Implementation of the Woolf Report
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your Question about the steps taken to implement the recommendations of the Woolf Report. The Government's response to the Woolf Report is set out in its White Paper "Custody, Care and Justice" (Cm 1647), published in September 1991. This described an ambitious programme of reforms. Our progress in implementing these is set out in the Home Secretary's letter of 8 February responding to Mr. Amess' Question on 14 January, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. Our plans for the future are set out in the Prison Service's Corporate Plan, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. This makes it clear that one of the Service's key themes for the next three years will be the implementation of futher reforms flowing from the White Paper.
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Re-offenders
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has about re-offending rates for (a) men and (b) women who have served a prison sentence ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack : Information on reconviction rates of those who have served a prison sentence is published regularly. The latest figures can be found in chapter 9 of "Prison Statistics England and Wales 1989", Cm 1221. Of those discharged in 1986, 63 per cent. of male young offenders, 42 per cent. of adult males and 34 per cent. of adult females were convicted of a further standard list offence within two years of release.
Prison Accommodation
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the certified normal level of accommodation for each prison in England and Wales ; and what was the actual population for each prison in March.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14April : The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your Parliamentary Question, for priority written answer on 14April, on CNA and population.
The attached table shows certified normal accommodation (CNA) and population for all Prison Service establishments in England and Wales on 31 March 1993.
Establishment CNA and Population figures for 31 March 1993 Establishment |CNA |Population ----------------------------------------------------------- Acklington |676 |545 Albany |222 |241 Aldington |133 |81 Ashwell |404 |378 Askham Grange |129 |81 Aylesbury |241 |218 Bedford |170 |244 Belmarsh |841 |671 Birmingham |638 |844 Blantyre House |95 |94 Blundeston |338 |312 Brinsford |336 |386 Bristol |374 |418 Brixton |621 |633 Brockhill |156 |148 Bullingdon |635 |433 Bullwood Hall |125 |104 Camp Hill |481 |327 Canterbury |104 |179 Cardiff |328 |395 Castington |300 |214 Channings Wood |594 |502 Chelmsford |244 |305 Coldingley |222 |129 Cookham Wood |120 |104 Dartmoor |560 |490 Deerbolt |432 |325 Dorchester |136 |179 Dover |316 |160 Downview |286 |279 Drake Hall |255 |121 Durham |364 |492 East Sutton Park |85 |74 Elmley |635 |614 Erlstoke |206 |203 Everthorpe |228 |219 Exeter |317 |357 Featherstone |599 |549 Feltham |874 |731 Finnamore Wood |112 |63 Ford |536 |389 Frankland |339 |297 Full Sutton |494 |426 Garth |512 |505 Gartree |258 |236 Glen Parva |854 |702 Gloucester |207 |220 Grendon |216 |182 Guys Marsh |300 |143 Haslar |136 |134 Hatfield |180 |124 Haverigg |345 |318 Hewell Grange |136 |154 High Down |485 |450 Highpoint |679 |525 Hindley |317 |305 Hollesley Bay |629 |265 Holloway |517 |436 Holme House |649 |520 Hull |269 |358 Huntercombe |240 |167 Kingston |104 |93 Kirkham |644 |465 Kirklevington |30 |33 Lancaster |186 |241 Lancaster Farms |115 |120 Latchmere House |131 |122 Leeds |591 |816 Leicester |194 |318 Lewes |258 |334 Leyhill |410 |415 Lincoln |444 |589 Lindholme |706 |569 Littlehey |543 |520 Liverpool |931 |1,224 Long Lartin |362 |334 Low Newton |199 |228 Maidstone |513 |493 Manchester |291 |315 Moorland |641 |572 Morton Hall |168 |164 The Mount |484 |424 New Hall |122 |130 North Sea Camp |204 |198 Northallerton |146 |187 Norwich |429 |409 Nottingham |218 |210 Onley |456 |377 Parkhurst |286 |204 Pentonville |695 |633 Portland |424 |328 Prescoed |20 |20 Preston |324 |484 Pucklechurch |56 |50 Ranby |331 |275 Reading |182 |174 Risley |692 |565 Rochester |303 |182 Rudgate |300 |279 Send |113 |107 Shepton Mallet |158 |194 Shrewsbury |168 |286 Spring Hill |210 |203 Stafford |476 |524 Standford Hill |384 |325 Stocken |396 |387 Stoke Heath |300 |275 Styal |180 |166 Sudbury |509 |432 Swaleside |504 |486 Swansea |213 |234 Swinfen Hall |167 |161 Thorn Cross |240 |221 Thorp Arch |166 |158 Usk |221 |179 The Verne |552 |487 Wakefield |662 |649 Wandsworth |965 |772 Wayland |580 |485 Wellingborough |284 |282 Werrington |110 |106 Wetherby |120 |105 Whatton |217 |212 Whitemoor |534 |469 Winchester |355 |329 The Wolds |320 |309 Woodhill |492 |458 Wormwood Scrubs |472 |506 Wymott |816 |671
Squatting
Mr. Burns : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to announce changes to the legislation on squatting ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack : I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to his question of 3 February at column 203. My right hon. and learned Friend hopes that he will be in a position to announce his proposals on squatting shortly.
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the responses to the consultation paper on squatting.
Mr. Jack : I have already given a general account of the response made to the consultation paper in my reply of 17 June 1992 to a question from the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) at column 522. Respondents were not asked to agree to publication when their comments were invited. It would not therefore be appropriate to publish the 216 replies which we received.
Police Training College
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what would be the security implications of contracting out the police training college ; and what safeguards would be introduced.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Careful consideration will be given to any security implications before a decision is made to contract out any of the services which are currently provided by the police staff college.
Market Testing
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff who have in the past been employed in the market testing unit at the Home Office and who were involved in the commissioning of the Coopers and Lybrand study of 1992 into businesses suitable for market testing now work for Coopers and Lybrand ; and when those appointments were referred to the Permanent Secretary.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : We are aware of only one, whose appointment was referred under the normal procedures to my right hon. and learned Friend in October 1992. The civil service cannot apply blanket bans of the subsequent
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employment of people who leave the civil service but if the hon. Member is seeking to imply that there was anything irregular or unusual in this case I strongly refute that implication.Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he has given since 3 February to whether the 1993-94 market testing programme should continue in its originally planned form.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : A provisional Home Office market testing programme for 1993-94 has been drawn up. Once the details have been finalised, we will make an announcement in the summer.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the provisional market testing list for the period September 1993 to March 1995 ; and what is the current annual cost of each function.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : No. I intend to announce in the summer the Home Office programme for the period October 1993 to September 1994.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps will be taken to ensure that operation and financial matters of any function will remain accountable to Parliament in the event of the contracting out of any Home Office function during the market testing period September 1993 to March 1995.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : Subject to respect for commercial confidentiality, contracting out does not affect accountability to Parliament for services provided by the Home Office.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultation there has been with Home Office unions since the market testing initiative of January 1992 ; whether the Home Office has published a code of practice on market testing consultation ; and whether the first draft of any such document has been issued to the staff associations.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : There have been consultations with Home Office unions, including a meeting of the market testing sub-committee of the Home Office departmental Whitley Council. A draft code of practice has been produced and consultation with the unions continues.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effect of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 on the Home Office functions that are to be market tested during 1993-94.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : We consult Home Office legal advisers as necessary about the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a comprehensive list of all Home Office functions which will be market tested during 1993 and 1994 ; and if he will give details of the savings he expects to make or has set as a target.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : We have drawn up a provisional Home Office market testing programme for 1993-94, but I
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propose to consider it further before finalising it. The functions being market tested to 30 September 1993 were published on 25 November 1992 in the "Citizen's Charter First Report : 1992".Contracting Out
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated cost to the Home Office of defending the judicial review in respect of the contracting out of prison education.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The application by Kent county council for judicial review of decisions taken by the Department on competitive tendering for the future provision of education services in prison establishments in England and Wales has yet to be heard. To date, additional legal costs of just over £8,000 have been incurred by the prison service in connection with the action.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff are employed in the market testing unit at the Home Office for the latest date available ; and how may of them are legally trained.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : On Tuesday 6 April 1993 the equivalent of 41.7 full-time staff were employed in the Home Office market testing unit. None has any legal training but they consult Home Office legal staff as necessary on legal problems.
Police National Computer
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what would be the security implications of contracting out the police national computer organisation ; and what safeguards would be introduced.
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Mr. Charles Wardle : If, as a result of the market testing programme, the operation of the Hendon data centre, which is responsible for maintaining the police national computer service, is contracted out, the contract will be placed only with an organisation which is able to maintain at least the present levels of security. The security requirements will be specified in detail if and when bids for the contract are invited.
Emergency Planning Strategy
Mr. Dowd : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to amend London's emergency planning strategy ; and what plans he has to give the LFCDA extra emergency planning powers.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Draft new civil defence regulations were published last December and comments received are being considered. We have no plans to give the LFCDA extra emergency planning powers. Emergency plans are drawn up locally by the emergency services, local authorities and other agencies where necessary. The authorities in London have recently agreed, and published, a major disaster plan.
Somali Asylum Seekers
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the total numbers of Somali asylum seekers for each of the past three years who have (a) been granted refugee status, (b) been given exceptional leave and (c) leave pending his consideration.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Information for 1990-92 (excluding dependants) on applications for asylum by Somali nationals, and on decisions, is given in the table. No applicant is required to leave the United Kingdom until his case has been decided.
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Applications by Somali nationals for asylum in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, and decisions, 1990 to 1992
Number of principal applicants
Applications Decisions<1>
received
Total Applied Applied Total Recognised Not recognised Refusals
|applications |at Port |in country |decisions |as refugee |as refugee, but|Total |Refused |Refused on |Refused under
|and granted |granted |refused |asylum and |safe third |para 101 of
|asylum |exceptional |exceptional |country |Immigration
|leave<2> |leave after |grounds<3> |Rules<4><5>
Year |determination
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1990 |1,920 |1,440 |475 |380 |280 |75 |25 |25 |. . |. .
1991 |1,995 |910 |1,085 |380 |160 |180 |45 |20 |20 |. .
<6>1992 |1,575 |890 |685 |2,550 |25 |2,210 |320 |* |50 |270
<1> Decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period.
<2> Where it would have been unreasonable or impractical to seek to enforce return to country of origin.
<3> Figures from 1 January 1991 only. Prior to this, these refusals are included in the column "Refused asylum and exceptional leave after determination".
<4> For failure to provide evidence to support the asylum claim within a reasonable period, including failure to respond to two invitations to interview to establish identity.
<5> Figures from 1 December 1991 only. Prior to this, these refusals are included in the column "Refused asylum and exceptional leave after determination".
<6> At end 1992, 2,755 applications were outstanding.
Figures rounded to the nearest 5 with * = 1 or 2, and . . = not separately identifiable.
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dependants of Somali asylum seekers have been granted residence in the United Kingdom (a) within the rules and (b) exceptionally for each of the past three years.
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