§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Rhodesians have been admitted to Great Britain for temporary or permanent residence in each of the years since 1968; and how many of these have been or are students in full-time education, returning citizens or residents of the United Kingdom and persons claiming political asylum, respectively.
§ Mr. Merlyn Rees, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 29 January 1979; Vol. 961, c. 304], gave the following information:
The numbers of Rhodesian citizens subject to immigration control admitted to the United Kingdom for temporary or permanent residence, as students or as people returning to the United Kingdom from temporary absence abroad are published annually in the Command Papers the latest of which, "Control of Immigration: Statistics 1977" (Cmnd. 7160) was published in April 1978. Figures for the first three quarters of 1978 are given in the following table. Information about persons claiming political asylum is not available.