HC Deb 29 June 1973 vol 858 cc426-7W
Mr. Sydney Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish statistics of work permits issued for Commonwealth workers and foreign workers from countries outside the EEC.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Yes. My right hon. Friend will put in the Library of the House each quarter a summary of work permits issued and applications refused for Commonwealth workers and non-EEC workers. My right hon. Friend today put in the Library statistics covering the first quarter of this year, and they will be published in the July edition of the Department of Employment Gazette.

In subsequent quarters these tables of work permits will be put in the Library of the House at the same time as those mentioned by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary in his reply to my hon Friend the Member for Heston and Isle-worth (Mr. Hayhoe) on 28th March. They will continue to be published in the Department of Employment Gazette.—[Vol. 853, c. 343–4.]