HL Deb 03 July 1969 vol 303 c759WA
LORD O'HAGAN

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish figures showing—

  1. 1. The forecast population of the United Kingdom in A.D. 2000.
  2. 2. The forecast "coloured" population of the United Kingdom in A.D. 2000, accompanied by their definition of the word "coloured" in this context.

BARONESS SEROTA

The latest projections of the scale of the population of the United Kingdom for the year 2000 were published in theMonthly Digest of Statistics for April, 1969, giving a total for that year of 68.2 million.

No projections are available of the possible size of different ethnic groups within this total.