§ 88. Sir D. Rentonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that in the first five months of this year there was a net increase of 34,525 Commonwealth immigrants, nearly 30,000 of whom camp from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and that 25,416 of the total net increase were women and children, including large numbers from India and Pakistan; whether he will make a statement indicating how these people are being employed, housed, and educated; what is the cost to the economy of having them here; and what further steps he will take to limit the numbers coming here in future.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsI would refer the right hon. and learned Gentleman to the Answer I gave to his Question of 9th March.—[Vol. 742, c.326.]