HC Deb 31 March 1983 vol 40 c270W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from Zimbabwe with (a) British citizenship, (b) dual British and Zimbabwean citizenship and (c) Zimbabwean citizenship have settled in the United Kingdom since Zimbabwean independence.

Mr. Waddington

Statistics of people who travelled on a Zimbabwean or Rhodesian passport and were granted settlement in the United Kingdom either on arrival or on removal of time limit on their stay are published annually in "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom (Table 2(a) and 3(a) of the latest issue for 1981, Cmnd. 8533). The total number granted settlement from 1 April 1980—the closest available date to 18 April 1980, when Zimbabwe became independent—to 31 December 1982 was 610.

British citizens (and, before 1 January 1983, citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies who were patrial) are not subject to immigration control and information is not available on the number of such people who have come from Zimbabwe to live in the United Kingdom. No separate information is available about persons with dual nationality.