Community Relations Councils

HC Deb 22 January 1975 vol 884 cc375-6W

Mr. McCrindle

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a list of grants over the past four years to community relations councils, specifying the amounts, and destinations of each of them.

						Detained	Removed	Allowed to stay
1973
Commonwealth citizens	…	…	…	…	187	114	20
Foreign nationals	…	…	…	…	…	67	58	5
1974—to 30th September
Commonwealth citizens	…	…	…	…	73	79	7
Foreign nationals	…	…	…	…	…	45	40	5

Before 1st September 1973, when the Pakistan Act 1973 came into force, citizens of Pakistan were included in the

Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

The main sources of grants to community relations councils are the Community Relations Commission and the local authorities for the areas concerned. Detailed information on the grants to councils from each of these sources has been published since the financial year 1969–70 in the annual reports of the Community Relations Commission which have been laid before Parliament as required by Section 25(7) of the Race Relations Act 1968.