§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs what numbers of emigrants from this country were admitted into each self-governing Dominion, respectively, during 1936, to the latest convenient date; and the numbers of returning emigrants from the same during the like period?
Mr. M. MacDonaldThe numbers of British subjects who were recorded in the passenger lists furnished to the Board of Trade as leaving permanent residence (by which is understood residence for a year or more) in the United Kingdom to take up permanent residence in the under-mentioned Dominions in the calendar year 1936, and the numbers of such persons who were recorded as leaving permanent residence in those countries to take up permanent residence in the United Kingdom in the same period are as follow:
— Emigrants from the United Kingdom (British subjects only). Immigrants into the United Kingdom (British subjects only). British North America. 2,281 10,107 Australia 4,096 5,362 New Zealand 1,462 1,966 South Africa (Union, Southern Rhodesia, etc.). 5,010 3,594 Total 12 months, 1936. 12,849 21,029