§ 99. Sir D. Rentonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people emigrated with the help of assisted passages in each of the last two years for which figures are 21W available; what steps he is taking to encourage further use of the Assisted Passage Scheme; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. KershawThe Australian Assisted Migration Scheme is the only migration scheme with which Her Majesty's Government are directly involved. The latest available annual figures for that Scheme show that the numbers of migrants born in the United Kingdom and Ireland provided with assisted passages were as follows:
1967–68 (July to June) … 54,859 1968–69 (July to June) … 72,620 No steps are at present contemplated by Her Majesty's Government to encourage further use of the Scheme.