HL Deb 31 January 1978 vol 388 cc739-40WA
Lord GRIDLEY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many coloured immigrants arrived in the United Kingdom in each of the years 1967–1977 from Pakistan, India and Nigeria respectively; and, of these entrants, how many were recruited into the United Kingdom police force in each case.

Lord HARRIS of GREENWICH

Home Office statistics on the control of immigration record only the citizenship

taxpayers in 1945, 1950, 1960, 1970 and each subsequent year.

Baroness BIRK

The figures in the following table are for the financial years 1949–50, 1959–60, and 1970–71 to 1976–77 inclusive. Data for 1945 are not obtainable.

or nationality of those admitted to the United Kingdom and not their colour. The available information on the number of persons accepted for settlement is given in the annual Command Papers the latest of which is Control of Immigration, Statistics, 1976 (Cmnd. 6883). The number of Pakistanis, Indians and Nigerians who arrived in the United Kingdom during the period 1967–77 and who joined police forces in England and Wales is not available.

House adjourned at three minutes before seven o'clock.