HC Deb 22 March 1985 vol 75 c615W
Mr. Freeman

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the last year of reported statistics, what number of visitors from the Asian sub-continent were admitted as temporary visitors, married British citizens during their temporary stay, and were then allowed to remain in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Waddington

Information is not available in the form requested. The available information is that about 340 husbands and 470 wives from the Indian sub-continent who had been admitted for a limited period other than as a husband or fiancé(e) were accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom in 1984; their admission may have been as visitors, students or in some other category given limited leave to enter; the figure for wives excludes those accepted for settlement on the removal of conditions applying to their husbands.