A-Infos March 2001 - Enforcement and Detention figures

[John O <ncadc@ncadc.org.uk>]

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National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC)
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Birmingham B20 2QS
Phone: 0121-554-6947  Fax:  0870-055-4570
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Web site:  http://www.ncadc.org.uk/

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March 2001 - Enforcement and Detention figures
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Enforcement:

Removals for the month of March  2001

In Country, (Enforcement removals): 1,000

Port refused & removed: 3,690

Total Number of removals: 4,690 (figures do not include dependants).

Within these figures are 780  asylum seekers + 220 dependents total 1,000

Virtual total of enforcements for March 4,910

*The Home Office method of calculating dependants is through an 
'uplift figure' which is 1.282 (or 28.2%, 'uplift figure' is only 
used for asylum seekers).

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Detention:
	  Persons recorded as being in detention in the United 
Kingdom solely under 1971 Immigration Act powers as at 31st March 
2001, by place of detention:

Location

Campsfield House   179
Dover Harbour   23
Harmondsworth   90
Harwich   2
Longport   4
Tinsley House   100

Prison establishments

Acklington   2
Bedford   5
Belmarsh   52
Birmingham   6
Brixton   14
Canterbury   4
Cardiff   49
Chelmsford   6
Cornton Vale   2
Craiginches   7
Doncaster   11
Dorchester   4
Durham   3
Feltham   6
Forest Bank   6
Gateside   45
Glen Parva   2
Haslar   135
High Down   69
Highpoint   2
Holloway   22
Holme House   50
Leeds   2
Lewes   2
Lincoln   2
Lindholme   105
Liverpool   76
Magilligan   12
Manchester   4
New Hall   2
Norwich   3
Pentonville   13
Rochester   172
Wandsworth   60
Winchester   47
Woodhill  2
Wormwood Scrubs   22

Other prison establishments   12

Total   1,436

1,038 held in detention/prisons and criminal prisons

398 held in Detention Centres

**Occupancy figure for Oakington Reception Centre 307

A total of 1,743 persons not at liberty

Asylum seekers held in prison establishments are subject to prison rules.

Figures exclude persons detained in police cells (other than at Dover Harbour).

Figures for Prison establishments may include some persons detained 
under dual immigration and other powers.

**Oakington is catorgrised by the Home Office as a holding/reception 
centre and excluded from the detainee table.
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Below are the locations of the Home Office detention estate.

Figures are for the number of beds at each location, total 1,842 beds.

Detention Centres

	Campsfield 184
	Dover Harbour 20
	Harmondsworth 91
	Queens buildings, Heathrow 15
	Longport 8
	Manchester Airport 16
	Tinsley House 150

Detention Prisons

	*HMP Haslar 160
	*HMP Rochester 198
	*HMP Lindholme 110

Designated Prisons

	* HMP Belmarsh 50
	* HMP Wandsworth 50
	* HMP Bullingdon 50
	* HMP Highdown 50
	* HMP Lincoln 50
	* HMP Holme House 60
	* HMP Liverpool 50
	* HMP Cardiff   50
	* HMP Winchester 50, (detainees are kept on the same wing as remands).
	* HMP Elmley   30, (detainees are kept on the same wing as remands).

Holding/reception centres

	   Oakington 400

Prisons
	At 31st March 2001 49  criminal prisons held detainees.

             The Prison Service makes places available to the 
Immigration and Nationality Department for immigration detainees as 
and when required.
	*Asylum seekers and immigration detainees held in these 
establishments and prisons are subject to prison rules, (treated as 
remand prisoners).
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A monthly break down of enforcement and detention statistics is 
available on NCADC's web site, (left hand frame resources).

Statistics from: Home Office Research Development & Statistics Directorate:

All figures are provisional and subject to revision.


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