HC Deb 26 April 1971 vol 816 c33W
Mr. Deakins

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what provisions in the Treaty of Rome and its subsequent regulations and directives can prevent the United Kingdom within an enlarged community insisting that aliens of other European Economic Community countries should not settle in the United Kingdom areas of high unemployment.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Provisions are made in Regulation (E.E.C.) No. 1251/70 of the Commission of 29th June, 1970 whereby E.E.C. nationals may acquire the right permanently to settle in the United Kingdom if they so choose, but only if they have lived and worked here for prescribed periods.