HC Deb 03 June 1965 vol 713 cc244-5W
Sir C. Osborne

asked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs if he will name the 30 local authorities who have immigrant populations big enough to justify the appointment of liaison committees; how many immigrants there are, including women and children, in each area; what other areas are likely to be included in the foreseeable future; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Foley

These committees are established by voluntary effort and are not necessarily related to the number of immigrants in a particular area. I hope, however, that further committees will be established in places where they do not at present exist and where substantial numbers of Commonwealth immigrants have settled.

The following is a list of those areas in which liaison committees have already been set up, together with the figures taken from the 1961 census of the numbers of immigrants in each.

RESIDENTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES ENUMERATED IN THE AREA STATED AND BORN IN:
Area Commonwealth Countries Colonies and Protectorates Foreign Countries and at sea
LONDON
Brent (formerly Willesden) 13,289 9,488
Camden (formerly Hampstead, Holborn and St. Pancras) 18,734 22,468
Croydon 6,901 4,591
Ealing (formerly Southall) 2,540 719
Hackney 11,378 8,462
Haringey (2 committees)—
(a) Hornsey 7,158 4,564
(b) Wood Green Not Not
available available
Hillingdon (formerly Hayes and Harlington) 849 822
Islington 21,645 7,429
Lewisham and Greenwich 7,133 4,467
Southwark 1,836 1,131
Westminster (formerly Paddington) 12,358 11,680
PROVINCIAL
Birmingham 31,108 10,834
Bradford 6,814 8,058
Derby 2,661 3,041
Gravesend 779 531
Halifax 679 2,032
High Wycombe 1,176 2,054
Keighley 246 1,209
Leeds 5,615 8,398
Leicester 4,445 5,627
Manchester 9,131 10,596
Nottingham 5,642 6,289
Oxford 2,636 2,990
Slough 1,954 2,388
Smethwick 2,370 531
Wolverhampton 5,844 2,903
Regional Committees
London 289,737 266,437
West Midlands 50,642 20,808
Yorkshire 36,649 50,946

These figures are taken from Table 8 of the series of County Reports on the 1961 census of population. For the areas in London, they are in terms of the authorities as they were before the changeover to the Greater London Boroughs.

The figures relate to those people who stated they were resident in England and Wales but were born outside the British Isles. This excludes immigrant children born in this country, but includes people born to parents who were temporarily abroad.