§ Mr. Gristasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether it is his intention to propose to include a question on address in the 1981 census of population, so allowing local authorities to estimate changes in migration patterns; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MoyleThe Government's intention to include a question about address one year ago is stated in Cmnd 7146, paragraph 22. The answers to this question will provide statistics on migration in the 12-month period before census day.
§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services on what data or assumptions the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys bases its estimate of 1,000 second generation New Commonwealth ethnic births in 1971 and 40,000 by 1981.
§ Mr. EnnalsInformation from the 1971 census about the numbers and age structure of persons of New Commonwealth and Pakistani (NCWP) ethnic origin who were born in the United Kingdom was given in an article in Population Trends No. 9 "New Commonwealth and Pakistani population estimates", Table 3.
No information is available about the fertility of women of NCWP ethnic origin born in the United Kingdom. However, the estimates of the second generation of NCWP ethnic groups to be born in the United Kingdom, quoted by the right hon. Gentleman, assumed that the fertility rates of these United Kingdom-born women would, during the 1970s, be intermediate between those of NCWP-born women and the national average.