HC Deb 18 January 1971 vol 809 cc217-8W
Mr. Merlyn Rees

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the number of Commonwealth citizens who entered the Common Travel Area with employment vouchers in Yorkshire and Humberside in each of the years 1964 to 1969, and by the month in the year 1970.

Mr. Bryan

Category B voucher holders who are admitted if they hold certain professional qualifications are not required to have an offer of employment. It is not known which particular posts they take up and it is, therefore, not possible to say how many of them settled in Yorkshire and Humberside during the years in question.

For Category A voucher holders entering the Common Travel Area, separate records of the regions in which they had offers of employment were not kept prior to 1968. The figure of those coming for employment in Yorkshire and Humberside in 1968 was 170 and in 1969 128.

By month in 1970 the figures were:

January 3
February 4
March 18
April 7
May 10
June 11
July 6
August 21
September 6
October 16
November 8
December 7
Total 117