§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the numbers of people from the New Commonwealth, including Pakistan (a) admitted for settlement in the United Kingdom and (b) accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom by revocation of conditions, in 1969 and each subsequent year, the figures for 1978 being estimated on the basis of the latest available monthly totals calculated at an annual rate.
§ Mr. Merlyn Rees,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 6th November 1978; Vol. 957, c. 42], gave the following information:
The figures requested for 1969 to 1977 are given in Tables 7 and 8 of Control of Immigration: Statistics 1977—Cmnd. 7160. Figures for the first half of 1978 were published in a press notice on 14th September 1978 which is available in the Library of the House. In the first half of 1978, 12,797 citizens of the New Commonwealth and Pakistan were accepted for settlement on arrival, and 9,352 on removal of time limit, equivalent respectively to an annual rate of 25,594 and 18,704.