§ 74. Mr. Willeyasked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science if he will now estimate the number of science graduates 11W who have left the United Kingdom, including overseas students returning home after training, during the last five years.
§ Mr. Denzil FreethThe Committee on Scientific Manpower made an estimate, based on general population studies, of the total number of scientists who left
BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH CITIZENS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE UNITED KINGDOM BY LONG SEA ROUTES Occupations Emigrants Immigrants Net Emigration 1959 1960 1961 1959 1960 1961 1959 1960 1961 Physicists 72 64 101 34 40 58 38 24 43 Mathematicians 8 8 12 8 8 8 — — 4 Chemists 232 246 282 176 208 161 56 38 121 Biologists 56 50 67 48 32 41 8 18 26 Other Scientists 192 220 238 140 154 155 52 66 83 TOTAL 560 588 700 406 442 423 154 146 277 (Sources—Overseas Migration Board and General Register Office.)