HC Deb 18 June 1931 vol 253 cc1969-70W
Major GLYN

asked the Home Secretary how many persons of foreign extraction have landed at British ports since 1st April holding passports making the necessary declaration that they are visiting this country as tourists; and how does this figure compare with 1930, 1929, and 1928, for the same period?

Mr. CLYNES

All available information as regards aliens is given in the annual returns under the Aliens Order, 1920, e.g., for 1930, Cmd. 3840, from which it appears that for the years 1928, 1929 and 1930 the figures of alien passengers landed as visitors on holiday, tourists, etc., were 224,815, 238,391, and 245,865. Figures are also published quarterly (see Cmd. 3877), and in the first quarter of the present year some 20,209 visitors, etc., were landed.