§ Mr. Alexander W. Lyonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) of the persons allowed to settle in the United Kingdom from the New Commonwealth since 1970, what percentage of the total was not wives and children or male United Kingdom passport holders;
(2) how many relatives who were not wives or children of the spouse have been admitted for settlement from the New Commonwealth in each of the last five years, whether on entry or on revocation of conditions;
(3) of the wives and children of men settled here who have themselves been allowed to settle here from the New Commonwealth over the last five years, what percentage came from in the United Kingdom from the New Commonwealth over the last five years, what percentage came from the Indian sub-continent and what percentage was United Kingdom passport holders.
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§ Dr. SummerskillChanges resulting from the Immigration Act 1971, and in recording practice, have made this information available for 1975 and, in future, for subsequent years; but information on a comparable basis is not in general available for previous years when wives and other adult women were recorded as a single category.
In 1975, 37 per cent. of those people from the New Commonwealth and from Pakistan who were allowed to settle either on arrival or on removal of the time limit on their stay were not wives and children, or male UKPH; 11.6 thousand relatives—7.7 thousand adult men, of whom 5.0 thousand were husbands, and 3.9 thousand adult women—other than wives and children were similarly accepted for settlement. Figures are available for previous years of the numbers of adult male relatives accepted for settlement: 4.4 thousand—of whom 2.0 thousand were husbands—in 1974, 3.1 thousand in 1973 and, on a different basis prior to the coming into force of the Immigration Act 1971, 1–9 thousand in 1972, 1.0 thousand in 1971 and 0.9 thousand in 1970.
As to the origin of wives and children of men—and, in the case of children, of women also—already settled here, accepted for settlement in 1975 from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan, 54 per cent. were citizens of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and 20 per cent. were UKPH.