§ Mr. Stanbrookasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the figures of new applications, certificates issued, outstanding appointments, new appointments and waiting periods in the entry queue of dependants of immigrants, in each of the three countries of the Indian subcontinent, respectively, at the latest available date, corresponding to the equivalent figures given in the Hawley Report of January 1976.
§ Mr. LuardThe figures for dependants and fiances for December 1976 are given in the table below. Precise and comparable figures are not available because the methods of recording applications have in the past varied from post to post.
wider implications, illustrated by the Concorde situation, of the apparent difficulties of the United States Federal Government implementing in all 50 States, treaty decisions signed between Her Majesty's Government and the United States Government.
§ Mr. JuddThe United States Administration are well aware of our concern at the wider implications of the Concorde situation. We will be taking this matter up with the Americans in our current negotiations for a new Air Services Agreement. I see no need to carry the matter further with Mr. Vance, but, as the hon. Member knows, the Prime Minister will be seeing him this afternoon, and if a suitable opportunity arises he may wish to remind Mr. Vance of what he has already said to President Carter about Concorde.