HC Deb 23 June 1981 vol 7 cc71-2W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the size of the New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic community of working age.

Sir George Young

According to estimates from the Labour Force Survey taken in the period March-May 1979, the number of persons in Great Britain of working age—16–64 for males and 16–59 for females—who described themselves as being of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, West Indian or African ethnic origin was about 940,000.