HC Deb 02 July 1963 vol 680 cc44-5W
Sir C. Osborne

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now make a statement on the working of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act in so far as it affects immigration from India, in view of the fact that there are 8 million people unemployed and 18 million chronically underemployed in that country.

Mr. Brooke

Since 1st July, 1962, there has been a net inward movement from India of about 10,000. Some 17,000 vouchers have been issued to Indian citizens by the Ministry of Labour, and rather more than 3,000 have come here with such vouchers.

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