HL Deb 15 September 1972 vol 335 cc707-8WA
LORD BARNBY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many individuals from all other areas holding documents similar to those at present entering, or about to enter, the United Kingdom from Uganda could claim right of entry to the United Kingdom.

BARONESS TWEEDSMUIR OF BELHELVIE

Estimates of the number of people whom, because they have no other citizenship, we might be obliged to admit if they were expelled from other countries are unreliable. The best estimate we can make is as follows:

Uganda 50,000
Kenya 50,000
Tanzania 20,000
Zambia 6,000
Malawi 6,000
India 25,000
Pakistan 1,000
Malaysia/Singapore 140,000

There are also small groups of citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies with no other citizenship resident in other countries throughout the world. It is impossible to estimate their numbers but they are unlikely to be large.