§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give, for the latest and most convenient stated date, the actual or estimated total number of immigrants settled in Great Britain and the total number of persons resident in the United Kingdom.
§ Sir George YoungI have been asked to reply.
According to estimates from the latest labour force survey taken in the period March-May 1979, 2,920,000 persons usually resident in private households in Great Britain had been born outside the United Kingdom and had thus at some time migrated to Great Britain. The mid-1979 estimate of the population resident in private households in Great Britain was 53,575,000.