Mr. John D. TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Irish will qualify as one of the ethnic origins to be registered in the proposed form for the next census.
§ Mr. FreemanThe draft Order in Council for a census to be taken in Great Britain on 21 April 1991 was laid before Parliament on 13 November. The order does not specify Irish as one of the categories in the ethnic group question, but statistical information on people born in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland will be available from the separate question on country of birth.