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Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has for the future of section 11 funding in the next financial year; and if he will make a statement. [2680]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Existing funding is committed to projects which are due to run until August 1998. We will announce our intentions for the period after that as soon as we can.
Mr. Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the amount of section 11 funding awarded to each LEA, and in total, for (a) 1994-95, (b) 1995-96 and (c) 1996-97; and if he will make a statement. [2681]
Mr. O'Brien: The amounts of grant paid to, or expected to be paid to local education authorities in relation to their expenditure within each of these years are as follows:
1. Where an authority's allocation of grant covered both education and non-education projects, an estimate has been given, based on the proportion of expenditure on education projects.
2. Figures for 1996-97 reflect grant entitlement. Final payments will be made in 1997-98.
(4) Subject to local government reorganisation in 1995-96.
(5) Payments due to these authorities for the year on the basis of expenditure claimed. Some payments remain to be made.
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Deportees
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were deported under Immigration Act powers from the United Kingdom in (a) January, (b) February, (c) March and (d) April; and what were the nationalities of those deported. [1926]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information requested is given in the table.
(6) Including voluntary departures after deportation action had been initiated.
(7) Excluding illegal entrants removed.
(8) Provisional data.
(9) Including nationalities where there has been only one deportation during the period.
(10) 1 or 2.
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Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who were convicted of a criminal offence in the United Kingdom, punishable by a prison sentence, were deported as part of their sentence in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March; what the (a) nationalities and (b) gender were of those deported; and from which prison establishments they were deported. [1929]
Mr. O'Brien: The information requested for January to March is given in the tables.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| Male | 47 |
| Female | 12 |
| Total | 59 |
(11) Provisional data.
(12) Provisional data.
(13) Includes nationalities where only one person is recorded as deported.
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| Number | |
|---|---|
| January | 20 |
| February | 24 |
| March | 15 |
| Total | 59 |
(14) Provisional data.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| HMP Holloway | 10 |
| HMP Rochester | 7 |
| HMP Highdown | 5 |
| HMP The Verne | 5 |
| HMP Wormwood Scrubs | 4 |
| HMP Brixton | 3 |
| HMP Cookham Wood | 3 |
| HMP Wandsworth | 3 |
| HMP Swaleside | 2 |
| HMP Wayland | 2 |
| Others(16) | 15 |
| Total | 59 |
(15) Provisional data.
(16) Includes nationalities where only 1 person is recorded as deported.
Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were detained under Immigration Act powers, in the United Kingdom during (a) Janaury, (b) February, (c) March and (d) April; what the (a) nationalities and (b) gender were of those detained; and how many were deported. [1930]
Mr. O'Brien: The available information on persons detained under Immigration Act powers, and on the number deported from detention, is given in the tables. The number deported does not include those who are removed as illegal entrants or under port refusal procedures.
| Month | Number deported |
|---|---|
| January | 60 |
| February | 51 |
| March | 55 |
| April | 47 |
| Total | 213 |
(17) Provisional figures.
(18) Persons detained solely under the powers contained in Schedules 2 or 3 of the Immigration Act 1971.
(19) Removed under the deportation process, including those who departed voluntarily after deportation action had been initiated.
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| Nationality | As at 31 January(23) 1997 | As at 27 March 1997 | As at 30 April 1997 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| Algeria | 88 | 85 | 89 |
| Angola | 11 | 17 | 14 |
| Bangladesh | 26 | 17 | 26 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 10 | 6 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| China | 52 | 57 | 57 |
| Columbia | 13 | 18 | 18 |
| Congo | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Cyprus | 19 | 13 | 19 |
| Ecuador | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| Ethiopia | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| Gambia | 19 | 16 | 16 |
| Ghana | 40 | 32 | 41 |
| India | 109 | 134 | 155 |
| Iran | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| Iraq | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Israel | 17 | 2 | 2 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Jamaica | 30 | 39 | 43 |
| Kenya | 8 | 12 | 11 |
| Liberia | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Lithuania | 10 | 10 | 12 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Morocco | 12 | 10 | 11 |
| Nigeria | 134 | 138 | 126 |
| Pakistan | 61 | 59 | 64 |
| Poland | 13 | 23 | 37 |
| Romania | 13 | 17 | 18 |
| Russia | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Sierra Leone | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Somalia | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| South Africa | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Sri Lanka | 17 | 16 | 17 |
| Sudan | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Turkey | 29 | 27 | 22 |
| Uganda | 8 | 7 | 10 |
| Zaire | 39 | 35 | 38 |
| Others(24) | 63 | 73 | 92 |
| Nationality doubtful | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Total | 936 | 966 | 1,050 |
(20) Provisional figures.
(21) Persons detailed solely under the powers contained in Schedules 2 or 3 of the Immigration Act 1971. In some cases the asylum application will have been lodged subsequent to the applicant being detained. The figures include both detained asylum applicants who applied at ports, and those detained in after-entry enforcement work and include those awaiting removal following refusal of asylum, as well as those whose applications were under consideration or subject to appeal.
(22) Excludes non-asylum port cases in detention.
(23) Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action are as at 31 January and Port cases are as at 3 February.
(24) The "others" category may include nationalities already listed.
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| Gender | As at 31 January(28) 1997 | As at 27 March 1997 | As at 30 April 1997 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male | 851 | 884 | 950 |
| Female | 85 | 82 | 100 |
| Total | 936 | 966 | 1,050 |
(25) Provisional figures.
(26) Persons detained solely under the powers contained in Schedules 2 or 3 of the Immigration Act 1971. In some cases the asylum application will have been lodged subsequent to the applicant being detained. The figures include both detained asylum applicants who applied at ports, and those detained in after-entry enforcement work and include those awaiting removal following refusal of asylum, as well as those whose applications were under consideration or subject to appeal.
(27) Excludes non-asylum port cases in detention.
(28) Illegal entrants and those subject to deportation action are as at 31 January and Port cases are as at 3 February.
Dr. Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many notices of intention to deport were issued in (a) January, (b) February, (c) March and (d) April. [1935]
Mr. O'Brien: The information requested for January to April 1997 is given in the table.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| January | 480 |
| February | 490 |
| March | 539 |
| April | 492 |
(29) Provisional data.
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