§ 49. Mr. Liptonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigrants landed at London Airport during the past three months for permanent settlement in the United Kingdom; what were the numbers for each country of origin; and how many from each country of origin were medically examined before leaving the airport.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsBelow is a table giving the number of Commonwealth immigrants admitted at London Airport during the first three months of this year.
Statistics of alliens coming for settlement are not recorded by port of arrival nor are they kept on a monthly basis. The total for the whole country in the last six months of 1966 was 1,764.
The available statistics do not show how many immigrants were referred for medical examination.
Territory that issued passport Aden 27 Australia 119 Barbados 243 Botswana 3 Canada 123 Ceylon 81 Cyprus 73 Ghana 67 Gibraltar 8 Guyana 82 Hong Kong 301 India 3,178 Jamaica 1,577 Kenya 32 Leeward and Windward Islands 204 Malawi 1 Malaysia and Singapore 46 Malta 143 Mauritius 94 New Zealand 26 Nigeria 139 Pakistan 2,848 Rhodesia 1 Sierra Leone 2 Tanzania 12 Trindad and Tobago 38 Uganda 6 Zambia 2 Others 131 Total 9,607