§ Sir C. Osborneasked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs if he will name the 30 local authorities who have immigrant populations big enough to justify the appointment of liaison committees; how many immigrants there are, including women and children, in each area; what other areas are likely to be included in the foreseeable future; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. FoleyThese committees are established by voluntary effort and are not necessarily related to the number of immigrants in a particular area. I hope, however, that further committees will be established in places where they do not at present exist and where substantial numbers of Commonwealth immigrants have settled.
The following is a list of those areas in which liaison committees have already been set up, together with the figures 245W taken from the 1961 census of the numbers of immigrants in each.
RESIDENTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES ENUMERATED IN THE AREA STATED AND BORN IN: Area Commonwealth Countries Colonies and Protectorates Foreign Countries and at sea LONDON Brent (formerly Willesden) 13,289 9,488 Camden (formerly Hampstead, Holborn and St. Pancras) 18,734 22,468 Croydon 6,901 4,591 Ealing (formerly Southall) 2,540 719 Hackney 11,378 8,462 Haringey (2 committees)— (a) Hornsey 7,158 4,564 (b) Wood Green Not Not available available Hillingdon (formerly Hayes and Harlington) 849 822 Islington 21,645 7,429 Lewisham and Greenwich 7,133 4,467 Southwark 1,836 1,131 Westminster (formerly Paddington) 12,358 11,680 PROVINCIAL Birmingham 31,108 10,834 Bradford 6,814 8,058 Derby 2,661 3,041 Gravesend 779 531 Halifax 679 2,032 High Wycombe 1,176 2,054 Keighley 246 1,209 Leeds 5,615 8,398 Leicester 4,445 5,627 Manchester 9,131 10,596 Nottingham 5,642 6,289 Oxford 2,636 2,990 Slough 1,954 2,388 Smethwick 2,370 531 Wolverhampton 5,844 2,903 Regional Committees London 289,737 266,437 West Midlands 50,642 20,808 Yorkshire 36,649 50,946 These figures are taken from Table 8 of the series of County Reports on the 1961 census of population. For the areas in London, they are in terms of the authorities as they were before the changeover to the Greater London Boroughs.
The figures relate to those people who stated they were resident in England and Wales but were born outside the British Isles. This excludes immigrant children born in this country, but includes people born to parents who were temporarily abroad.