§ Mr. Goodladasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigrants were admitted for permanent settlements in each of the past five years; and how many in each year were refugees, and from where.
§ Mr. RaisonInformation on the numbers of persons accepted for settlement on arrival in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years is given in tables 10, 13 and 14 of the annual Command Paper " Control of Immigration: Statistics 1978 " (Cmnd. 7565) which was published in May 1979; table 14 gives a breakdown by country. None of those so accepted was a refugee because refugees 119W are normally granted leave to enter subject to a time limit or are recognised as refugees after having been admitted in some other capacity. Refugees may in time qualify for settlement and would then be included among those accepted for settlement on removal of time limit, but cannot be identified separately.