§ Mr. Tom Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of men at present 375W waiting in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for interview for an entry visa to allow them to join their wives in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. WaddingtonOf the 2,800 husbands and male fiancés in the Indian subcontinent awaiting a decision on their application for entry clearance to the United Kingdom at the end of March 1983, 550 were husbands. These figures include those who have been interviewed but whose application remains undetermined. Combined figures for husbands and male fiancés are published quarterly in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Control of immigration: statistics"—table 7 of the latest issue, No. 7/83.
§ Mr. Kilfedderasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many citizens of the Republic of Ireland entered the United Kingdom to find work in each of the past five years; and what estimate he has of the number of jobs which have been taken up by such immigrants.
§ Mr. WaddingtonInformation is not available in the form requested. However, I understand that the number of citizens of the Irish Republic who registered or reregistered in the United Kingdom under the national insurance scheme was 9,400 in 1979, 8,500 in 1980, 6,500 in 1981, 3,900 in 1982 and 4,800 in 1983; these figures may include the same person more than once. From replies to the sample labour force survey for 1981 it is estimated that there was then a total of some 259,000 Irish citizens in employment in the United Kingdom.