HL Deb 18 January 1982 vol 426 cc514-5WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will vary the procedure for collecting immigration statistics centrally so as to be able to identify the numbers of adopted children.

Lord Belstead

The Government have no plans to do so.

Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why they do not normally keep records of the exercise by the Secretary of State for the Home Department of his discretion to admit a child with a view to his or her adoption here; and whether they will do so with effect from 1st January 1982.

Lord Belstead

Records of individual cases are kept, but a central statistical record of the numbers is not maintained and the Government have no plans to establish one.