§ Miss Lestorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will state the number of children from abroad who have been accepted into the United Kingdom for adoption;
(2) if he will list the countries from which children have been admitted into the United Kingdom for adoption during the last 12 months, with the number of children in respect of each country.
§ Mr. RentonInformation is not available in the form requested, as the statistics collected on passenger admissions do not separately identify those children who come to the United Kingdom for adoption. However, 85 children were recorded as having been granted settlement in the United Kingdom in 1986 on the basis of their adoption by a person already settled here. Their nationalities are shown in the following table:
Acceptances for settlement by reason of adoption Nationality Number of children of each nationality Brazil, India 7 Columbia, Pakistan 5 Nigeria, Philippines, Salvador 4 West Germany, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, United States of America 3 Denmark, Ghana, Jamaica, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania 2 Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Cyprus, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Panama, Portugal, Yemen (Arab Republic), Zimbabwe, British Dependent Territories citizen, British overseas citizen 1 85 (1) Includes three children whose nationality is not uniquely recorded on the computer system.