§ 24. Mr. Freesonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children classified as immigrant are in the total school population.
§ Mr. HowellThis information is not at present available, but statistics are now being collected and results will be available later in the year.
§ Mr. FreesonIs it not true that the statistics now being collected from the schools include statistics of children who are not immigrants, but born in this country? Would he tell the House the reason for this?
§ Mr. HowellWe have on many occasions endeavoured, in reply to Questions of my hon. Friend, to define what an immigrant is for educational purposes. I cannot go into all of that again. The statistics being collected in respect of January of this year relate to immigrants as previously defined.