§ Mr. HoltTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many citizens of the Republic of Ireland migrated to the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. RentonThe information requested is not available. However, it is estimated from the labour force survey that in 1987 just over half a million persons usually resident in Great Britain had been born in the Republic of Ireland, some 50,000 of whom had entered the United Kingdom since the beginning of 1977.