Earl of Dalkeithasked the Minister of Health whether he will carry out a regular survey on the skills and professions of persons migrating from the United Kingdom and publish a six-monthly report, giving an analysis.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonData on the occupations and professions of intending emigrants from the United Kingdom are already obtained from the sample survey of passengers travelling to and from this country conducted by the Social Survey for my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade. Analyses of the data are made by the Registrar General and published in his Quarterly Returns for the Third and Fourth Quarter each year. The figures for relatively small groups of migrants are inevitably subject to some sampling error. The possibility of improving our statistics of migration, both into and out of the United Kingdom, is at present under review.