§ 75. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many United Kingdom citizens he estimates have emigrated permanently in the first nine months of this year and 1963, respectively.
§ Mr. SnowInternational convention defines an emigrant as a person going abroad for a year or more. On this basis the most up-to-date estimates are that net migration from the United Kingdom in the first half of 1968 amounted to 59,000 people. The nearest comparable figures are for the years ending mid-1963 and mid-1964, which are estimated at 95,000 and 142,000, respectively.