§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the total number of citizens of the New Commonwealth and Pakistan who were accepted for settlement on arrival and by revocation of conditions in each of the years 1976 to 1981, the number of dependants admitted for settlement in the same period and the percentage of the total they represent in each year.
§ Mr. RaisonThe total numbers of citizens of the New Commonwealth and Pakistan accepted for settlement on arrival and on removal of time limit are published in table 13 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics 1981" (Cmnd. 8533). The information requested for dependants is given in the following table.
Citizens of the New Commonwealth and Pakistan Accepted for Settlement as Dependants† Number (thousands) As a percentage of total acceptances 36.1 66 30.5 69 29.7 69 26.6 72 24.4 72 23.3 75 † Children; men other than husbands and women accepted other than as special voucher holders, because of four years in approved employment or because they were exempt from deportation.