§ Mr. Ronald Bellasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much public money has been paid or agreed to be paid to International Social Service up to the end of January 1973 in respect of the repatriation of Commonwealth immigrants; how many Commonwealth immigrants had been repatriated by that agency up to that date; and how many applications for assistance in repatriation had been received by it up to the end of 1972.
§ Mr. LaneUp to 31st January 1973, £44,256 had been paid to International Social Service in connection with the scheme under Section 29 of the Immigration Act 1971. Up to the same date 26 families, numbering 85 persons, whose head was of Commonwealth origin, were assisted to leave this country. International Social Service had received 456 applications by 31st December 1972.