§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the number of children born to women born in the United Kingdom of New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic origin, excluding those of mixed descent, in the childbearing age group 15 to 44 years in the years 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1991.
§ Sir George YoungThere is little evidence on the fertility of women of 281W NCWP origin born in this country. However, assumptions about their rates of fertility and rates of intermarriage with the indigenous population were made in an article entitled "Population of New Commonwealth and Pakistani ethnic origin: new projections", published in Population Trends No. 16. Within the total numbers in those projections the numbers of children of wholly NCWP origin born to mothers who themselves had been born in Great Britain were, in broad terms, 10,000 by 1976, 40,000 by 1981, 110,000 by 1986 and 220,000 by 1991.