§ LORD O'HAGANasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will state for the years 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, the total numbers of staff involved in, and the total expenditure of public funds on: (1) Administration of Immigration Controls; (2) work on Nationality and Citizenship questions; and (3) the Immigration Service.
§ LORD WINDLESHAMFigures for Home Office staff in post on October 1, 1960, and in each year from 1965 onwards are given below. Information is not available for earlier years.
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Stockport Corporation Year Administration of Immigration Controls Work on Nationality and Citizenship questions Immigration Service and Supporting Staff 1960 235 79 460 1965 323 78 633 1966 349 100 707 1967 419 109 756 1968 411 102 866 1969 408 93 919 1970 437 94 1,135 Estimates of expenditure as given in the Explanatory Memoranda to the Expiring Laws Continuance Bills for 1965 and subsequent years are:
1965, £2.5 million; 1966, £2.9 million; 1967, £3.3 million; 1968, £3.8 million; 1969, £4.2 million; 1970, £5.5 million.
These figures do not include expenditure on work on nationality and citizenship questions, but from 1968 onwards includes expenditure in other Departments and in the Aliens Registration Office of the Metropolitan Police Office.
House adjourned at seven minutes past six o'clock.