§ Sir Peter Millsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of immigrants to the United Kingdom for the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982; and what is the forecast for 1983.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe numbers accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom, either on arrival or removal of the time limit on their stay from 1972 to 1982, were published in table 12 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom 1982" — Cmnd. 8944. Quarterly figures are published in Home Office statistical bulletins, which are available in the Library of the House; those up to the second quarter of 1983 were published in issue No. 15/83 and those up to the third quarter of 1983 will be published later this month. It is not our practice to publish forecasts of acceptances for settlement, which are affected by many changing and unforeseeable factors.