HC Deb 05 April 1973 vol 854 c138W
Mr. Elystan Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what studies, if any, his Department has made of the emigration from Wales of male workers in the past decade.

Mr. Dudley Smith

My Department has not made any special studies but the Migration Regional Report for Wales, in the series of published volumes from the 1966 Census of Population, indicates that there were 38,000 economically active men resident in other parts of Great Britain at that time who were resident in Wales five years previously. These were largely counterbalanced by the numbers of economically active males resident in Wales who were previously resident in other parts of Great Britain. Corresponding estimates from the 1971 Census of Population are not yet available.