HC Deb 21 February 1978 vol 944 c580W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the Written Answer to the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Arnold) Official Report, 8th February, column 565, on immigration, if he will institute an investigation designed to quantify so far as may be the various factors which bear on the accuracy of estimates of numbers of dependants of immigrants entitled to take up residence in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

The investigation carried out at my predecessor's request by the Parliamentary group under Lord Franks's chairmanship went into this matter, and I would refer the hon. Member to its valuable report published in February last year (Cmnd. 6698).