§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for defence how many university students have been accepted to date and whether there are any positions left to fill under his Department's science group vacation students scheme 1983; how many of the persons accepted are (a) citizens of the Republic of Ireland and (b) born in a country or 264W territory which was then or is now in the Commonwealth; what were the countries or territories concerned; how many persons came from each in each year since 1981; and how many from (i) each territory or country in the Commonwealth and (ii) the Republic of Ireland were in each participating establishment.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe information requested is as follows.
192 university students have been accepted to date under the MOD science group vacation students scheme 1983. There are 83 positions left to fill.
For 1981–83, the number of students from each Commonwealth country accepted are:
1981 1982 *1983 Canada — — 2 Hong Kong — — 1 Kenya 1 — — Malaya — 1 1 New Zealand — 1 — Trinidad 1 — — Uganda — 1 — * accepted to date No students from the Republic of Ireland were accepted in 1981 or 1982 or have been so far in 1983.