Mr. John Mark Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an indication of the number by which the population of the United Kingdom has increased since 1956 in consequence of the arrival of new British citizens.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe available information, derived from the labour force survey, suggests that in 1984 about 3 to 3½ million persons resident in Great Britain had been born abroad, about half of whom had British nationality. The number of United Kingdom residents born abroad who were in Great Britain on the night of the decennial census was 1.6 million in 1951, 2.2 million in 1961, 3.0 million in 1971 and 3.4 million in 1981.