§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from the following countries have applied to enter the United Kingdom permanently to reside so far in the current year : South Africa, Zimbabwe, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, 16W Albania, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Bulgaria, East Germany and the USSR.
§ Mr. RaisonStatistics on the number of persons from the listed countries who have applied for entry clearance for immediate settlement in 1980 are not available. The only available information on such applications relates to entry clearances for settlement in the United Kingdom applied for in the Indian Sub-continent. Statistics on the number of persons from each of the listed countries, except Albania, who were accepted for settlement in 1979, are published in tables 3(a), 3(b), 4(a) and 4(b) of "Control of Immigration : Statistics 1979"; Cmnd. 7875.