Mr. Milanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will bring up to date the figures given in Table 4(A) of Command Paper No. 2864 by giving details for the years after 1963–64.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithI have been asked to reply.
77WThe figures in table 4(A) of Command Paper 2864 were derived from records of the areas in which the national insurance cards of employees in a sample of insured persons had been exchanged. The locality in which an employee was working might differ from that in which his card was held and exchanged. With the growth of centralised payrolls the estimates of migration from this source became progressively less reliable. An article in the Ministry of Labour Gazette for February, 1968, cancelled the estimates for the period 1962–66 and drew attention to the unreliability of those for earlier years.
I regret, therefore, that it is not possible to bring the table up to date.
§ Mr. Millanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will bring up to date the figures given in Table 1 of Command Paper No. 2864 by giving details for the years after 1963–64.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellFigures for later years have been published in the Digest of Scottish Statistics, in the Abstract of Regional Statistics, and in the quarterly returns of the Registrars General.