§ Sir J. Duncanasked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will ask the Governments of India and Pakistan to inform him periodically of the number of passports issued to their nationals who wish to immigrate to this country under the new regulations for the control of such passports which have recently been officially announced to him by those governments.
§ Mr. AlportI am grateful for my hon. Friend's suggestion, but I do not think that the particular information he suggests would be useful as there is no close connection between the number of passports the Governments of India and Pakistan are currently issuing and the number of persons currently arriving in the United Kingdom from those two countries. I am, however, pursuing with the two Commonwealth Governments other suggestions for controlling the number of migrants and the Commonwealth Governments are being most helpful.