63. Miss Cazaletasked the Home Secretary how many foreigners are employed as domestic servants in this country at the present time?
§ Mr. LloydThe information asked for could not be given without a detailed examination of the records of registered aliens. According to the last census taken, on 26th April, 1931, the number of foreigners employed in domestic service, including service in hotels and boarding-houses in England, Scotland, and Wales, was 3,466 males and 9,505 females. The number of cases in which foreigners have been permitted to take up employment as domestic servants in the United Kingdom in the years 1931 to 1936 inclusive is 32,090. It does not follow that all these persons are now in this country, and experience has shown that a large proportion, if not the majority, of foreign domestics leave the country within two or three years of their arrival.