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Detoxification
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3 DECEMBER 1979
Mr. Wheeler asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by year since 1973, the total number of occasions a constable has used the power under section 34 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 and taken a person to a detoxification centre.
Mr. Brittan: The first experimental de-P toxification centre in England and Wales was set up in 1976. The number of ad- missions to detoxification centres from that year
is published annually in 'Offences of drunkenness, England and Wales (table 1 of the volume for 1978, Cmnd, 7707)
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Deportation
Mr. Marlow asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported sub- sequent to conviction of offences punish- able by imprisonment for each of the last 10 years; and in each year what proportion this represented of those who commited offences for which deportation can be ordered.
Mr. Raison: The available information is as follows:
Recommendations for deportation made by a Court
under section 3(6) of the
Deportation enforced following
a Court recommendation
Immigration
Act 1971
1973
677
392
1974
638
233
1975
875
305
1976
1,190
418
1977
1,175
564
1978
980
485
1979*
828
* To 31 October 1979.
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The number of deportation orders en- forced in a calendar year do not all relate to court recommendations made in that year. Figures showing the total number of persons subject to immigration control and not exempt from deportation who were convicted of offences punishable with imprisonment are not available.
Vietnamese Refugees
Mr. Marlow asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the commitment to 10,000 refugees from Vietnam will have been fulfilled; and what will be the rights of settlement of
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Mr. Raison: It is not yet possible to say when the commitment will have been fulfilled. As far as possible, the selection of refugees keeps family groups together. No decision has yet been made on the position about claimed relationships after the quota has been fulfilled.
Fourth Television Channel
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Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has received concerning the fourth television channel and Scotland.
Mr. Whitelaw: I have received repre- sentations to the effect that there should be access to the fourth channel for programmes by Scottish independent producers and also programmes trans- mitted only in Scotland. These options would be possible under my proposals.
Television (Welsh Language Programmes)
Mr. D. E. Thomas asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many letters he has received asking him to reconsider his proposal to place Welsh language programmes on two channels rather than establishing a Welsh language service on the fourth channel; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Whitelaw: About 40.
Immigration
Mr. Marlow asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers the immigration service has con- cerning security at ports and airports.
Mr. Raison: Immigration officers act in accordance with powers contained in the Immigration Act 1971. They also have certain powers derived from the Prevention of Terrorism (Supplemental Temporary Provisions) Order 1976, as amended.
Mr. Marlow asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many unmarried men of marriageable age have come to the United Kingdom since 1 January 1973 (a) with the purpose from the Indian subcontinent to settle
of marriage and (b) for other purposes.
Mr. Raison: Admissions of men for marriage and total admissions analysed by
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citizenship/nation annually in the trol of Immigratio and 9(a) of the 7565). Informati age, or, in the ca by sex or marita
Dr. Summerski of State for the H nationalities were husbands who w to enter or remai riage to a woma Kingdom in the March 1979.
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Algeria Brazil Egypt
Greece Indonesia
Iran Iraq
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Jordan
Lebanon Morocco Norway Pakistan Philippines Portugal Somali South Africa
Spain Syria
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