HL Deb 08 March 1982 vol 428 cc100-1WA
Lord McNair

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many refugees from Eastern European countries have been admitted to the United Kingdom during the lsst two decades.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Belstead)

Detailed statistics on the numbers of persons granted asylum in the United Kingdom have been maintained only since 1979. According to our records the figures for 1979, 1980 and 1981 were as follows:

1979 1980 1981
Bulgaria 3 5 3
Czechoslovakia 22 28 21
Hungary 18 28 10
Poland 8 8 12
Rumania 2 14 10
U.S.S.R 1 7 4
Total 54 90 60

The only other figures available show that an estimated 2,200 Czechs came here in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.