LORD CLIFFORD OF CHULA EIGHasked Her Majesty's Government:
The number of immigrants that have come to reside and work in this country from the Republic of Eire since the war.
§ BARONESS SEROTAThe available information, which includes people coming here for seasonal and other temporary employment, is as follows:
PERSONS COMING FROM THE IRISH REPUBLIC REGISTERING OR RE-REGISTERING FOR NATIONAL INSURANCE IN GREAT BRITAIN Year New registrations Re-registrations 1957 … … 58,672 98,130 1958 … … 47,869 10,447 1959 … … 51,139 13,355 1960 … … 57,798 15,164 1961 … … 52,920 14,678 1962 … … 38,367 13,995 1963 … … 32,978 14,563 1964 … … 39,100 16,920 1965 … … 40,004 16,526 1966 … … 44,319 17,061 1967 … … 33,896 15,372 Notes:
(i)In general men and single women are required to register for national insurance on entering employment in Great Britain or at the end of six months' residence, whichever is the earlier. Married women are not required to register unless they enter employment.
(ii)Persons re-registering for insurance include those who left Great Britain (perhaps to take up employment abroad) but subsequently returned (excluding those whose insurance was maintained in their absence) and also those who at some earlier date came from abroad, registered and left again.
(iii)For the years 1951–1956 separate figures for new registrations and re-registrations are not available; but the totals of registrations are as follows—1951, 33,953; 1952, 47,134; 1953, 47,761; 1954, 54,385; 1955, 67,916; 1956, 60,091.