§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the finding of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys monitor concerning the percentage of population in the United Kingdom which belongs to the ethnic minorities.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergInformation from the 1981 labour force survey was published on 11 May 1982 in OPCS Monitor LFS 82/1, and this included estimates of the numbers in the main ethnic minority groups. This month the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys will be publishing an editorial article in Population Trends 28, also to be issued as a Monitor (PP1 82/1), which will make broad comparisons between results from the labour force survey, the general household survey, the regular annual estimates of the size of the population of New Commonwealth and Pakistani ethnic origin for Great Britain as a whole, and results from the 1981 census concerning countries of birth. I will arrange for a copy of OPCS Monitor PP1 82/1 to be sent to my hon. Friend.