395
Written Answers
Vol.176
16 JULY 1990
Written Answers
Refusals to grant probationary year
Accommodation
on grounds of:—
Maintenance
Maintenance and accommodation
Refusals of settlement1
Jiye NH
396
Husbands Wives
1
1990
Quarter I Husbands Wives
HRD
1 After probationary year on general considerations, including recourse to public funds.
Mr. Darling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) British nationals and (b) holders of certificates of identity from Hong Kong have been admitted to the United Kingdom in each quarter since January 1989 as (i) persons on independent
5
53
3 ⇓
means, (ii) self-employed persons, (iii) business people, (iv) visitors, (v) students, (vi) husbands and fiancés, (vii) wives and fiancées and (viii) other dependent relatives.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: The available information for BDTCs and BN(O)s from Hong Kong is given in the table. Figures on admissions of holders of certificates of identity from Hong Kong are not available.
Admissions to the United Kingdom of British Dependent Territories Citizens and British Nationals (Overseas) from Hong Kong
Number of persons
1 1990
Admission
1989
Total
category
1st quarter
2nd quarter
3rd quarter
4th quarter
1989
1st quarter
Visitors
6.260
7,740
13,700
6,040
33,800
5,980
Business visitors Students
1,400
1,320
1,450
1,250
5,420
1,430
360
290
5,490
1,090
7,230
430
Husbands and fiancés
10
10
20
10
50
10
Wives and fiancées
30
40
40
30
150
40
1 Provisional figures.
Mr. Darling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was (i) the budgeted cost and (ii) the actual cost of processing nationality applications in the Nationality Division during 1989-90.
was
Mr. Peter Lloyd: The budgeted cost of processing applications for citizenship during 1989-90 £7,922,000. Final outturn costs are not yet available but are expected to be in the region of £7·1 million.
Mr. Darling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will produce a table to show, for 1989 and the first quarter of 1990, the number of settlement applications at the post in Dhaka which were (a) received, (b) granted, (c) refused, (d) deferred at first interview, (e) lapsed, (ƒ) outstanding and (g) outstanding and awaiting first interview.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: The information requested is given in the table.
Applications in Bangladesh for entry clearance for settlement in the United Kingdom'
Applications
Newly received 2 Granted3
Refused initially*
Number of persons
1989
1990 1st quarter
6,910
1,730
7,960 2,450
1,640
750
Applications
Referred or deferred3 Withdrawn or lapsed*
Awaiting first interview at end of period
۲,
1989
1990
Ist quarter
2,920
580
1,840
350
2,100
2,200
1 Including applications for a certificate of entitlement to the right of
abode in the United Kingdom.
2 Data include some double counting in respect of applications recorded initially for entry clearance and then subsequently for a certificate of entitlement.
3 Granted initially or on appeal.
4 Since about the end of 1989, settlement applications have been refused in those circumstances where previously they would have been lapsed.
S
Referred to the Home Office for decision or deferred for further inquiries.
Mr. Darling: To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Department how many (a) men, (b) women and Mas
(c) children were waiting in each queue at each post in the Indian sub-continent on 31 March.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: Information on the estimated total numbers in each queue is given in the table; separate information on men, women and children is not available centrally.
Estimated numbers of applicants in the Indian sub-continent on 31 March 1990 awaiting their first interview for entry to the United Kingdom
Post
Dhaka
New Delhi2
Bombay Calcutta
203 CW85/11 Job 3-1
Number of persons
Queue 1
370
Queue 2
Category1
Queue 3
Queue 4
Queue 5
900
130
830
3
250
170
60
160
630
380
120
140
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.