§ Mr. Speedasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the numbers of citizens from New Commonwealth countries and Pakistan who entered Great Britain after 1st January 1973 and have since been admitted for settlement on removal of time limit, being neither United Kingdom passport holders nor dependants, nor fiancées or financés of persons previously settled in the United Kingdom and under what criteria they have been accepted for settlement in each of the years from 1973;
(2) if he will list the number of dependants, other than wives and children under 18 years of age, of New Commonwealth and Pakistan citizens who entered the United Kingdom before 1st January 1973 who have themselves been accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom in each of the years from 1973, detailing the number of those who have been parents, grandparents, unmarried children between 18 and 21 years and other distressed relatives of those previously settled here.
§ Mr. Merlyn Rees, pursuant to his reply [Official Report. 17th February 1978; Vol. 944, c. 383] gave the following information:
The following table gives the only available breakdowns relevant to these Questions of the figures shown in the annual Command Papers on the control of immigration.
In answer to the hon. Member's first Question, statistics of acceptances for settlement on removal of time limit are classified by the date of acceptance, not the date of entry into the United Kingdom. However, those shown in the table as having completed four years in business or as a person of independent means or as having been accepted for settlement after five years residence will have been in the United Kingdom before 1st January 1973. The nearest available categories to those 585W requested are given in lines 6, 11, 15 and 16 of the table.
In answer to the hon. Member's second Question, statistics of acceptances for settlement of dependants are classified by the date of entry or acceptance and citizenship of the dependant, and not of his sponsor. Precise figures are not available for the number of citizens of the
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ACCEPTANCES FOR SETTLEMENT—SELECTED CATEGORIES CITIZENS OF THE NEW COMMONWEALTH AND PAKISTAN Number of people 1973 1974 1975 1976 ON ARRIVAL Others accepted for settlement* (mainly dependants) (1) Special voucher holders … … … 1,994 3,379 3,789 3,708 Parents, grandparents, children over 18, distressed relatives, other compassionate cases and other (including some non-dependants): (2) Men … … … … … 2,960 2,343 2,611 2,051 (3) Women … … … … … 9,707† 7,070† 3,638 3,041 (4) Total of others accepted for settlement on arrival (mainly dependants)‡ … … 14,461† 12,792† 10,038 8,800 ON REMOVAL OF TIME LIMIT Commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the United Kingdom (5) United Kingdom passport holders … 1 — 3 1 (6) Others … … … … … 33 43 23 36 Others accepted for settlement* (including dependants) (7) Parents … … … … … 152 145 299 304 (8) Grandparents … … … … 1 3 9 16 (9) Four years in business or as a person on independent means … … … 45 33 117 90 Claim to partiality upheld║: (10) United Kingdom passport holders … 33 49 41 31 (11) Others … … … … … 84 102 61 105 (12) Accepted for settlement by reason of five years residence … … … … § 7,390§ § § Children over 18, distressed relatives, other compassionate cases and others accepted for special reasons (including non-dependants): United Kingdom passport holders: (13) Men … … … … 726§ 1,360§ 460 137 (14) Women … … … … 513§ 452§ 297 112 Others: (15) Men … … … … 1,258§ 1,082§ 422 374 (16) Women … … … … 750§ 741§ 357 323 (17) Total of others accepted for settlement on removal of time limit (including dependants)‡ … … … … … 3,562§ 11,357§ 2,063§ 1,492§ * Excluding children under 18. † Including wives accepted for settlement on arrival before 1st September 1974. ‡ As derived from the annual Command Paper. Only the aggregate of the two totals given in this table can be derived from the Command Paper for 1973. § Section 7 of the Immigration Act 1971 provides that a Commonwealth citizen ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on 1st January 1973 is not liable to deportation when he has been ordinarily resident for five years. Before April 1974, those shown as having completed five years' residence are included in lines 13 to 16, although the numbers are likely to have been small. For the rest of 1974 the numbers are as shown. For 1975 and 1976, five years' residence (exempt from deportation) is given as a separate category in the Command Papers and so the figures are not given in this table. ║ These are patrials who have their time limit removed; the time limit was originally imposed because the Immigration Officer was not satisfied the person had the right of abode in the United Kingdom. New Commonwealth and Pakistan accepted for settlement as dependants other than as wives or children under 18 years of age, since in the statistics they are not entirely distinguished from those accepted for other reasons. The nearest available categories are given in line 2 and 3, and 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the table.
Following is the table: