§ Mr. Sandysasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will circulate in the Official Report a table of figures showing by countries of origin the number of immigrant workers and the number of dependants of immigrant workers who have entered Great Britain in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe available statistics relating to Commonwealth citizens subject to immigration control under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962, are published annually (Cmnd. 2379, 2658, 2979) and monthly statistics are placed in the Library. I am sending a copy of the return for May to the right hon. Member.
§ Mr. Sandysasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, when 153W considering applications for the admission into Great Britain of immigrant workers, he obtains particulars of dependants for whose admission they may wish subsequently to apply.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsSince last October, it has been the practice to ask a Commonwealth citizen overseas who is given a Ministry of Labour voucher to provide particulars of the dependants entitled to enter the United Kingdom with him or to follow him later.
§ Mr. Sandysasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give by countries of origin an estimate of the number of dependants for whose admission immigrant workers who entered Great Britain during the last five years, are entitled to apply.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsI am not in a position to do so.