HC Deb 02 April 1990 vol 170 cc438-9W
Mr. Wells

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of new immigrants admitted for settlement and the total immigration to and emigration from the United Kingdom, giving a net total, for each of the years 1978 to 1989, for Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Estimates of total migration to and from the United Kingdom, including British citizens and all people intending to reside in, or out of, the country for a year or more, are published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in "International Migration 1988", a copy of which is in the Library.

These estimates are on a different basis from the figures of persons accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom. The total number of acceptances for the nationalities specified in the years 1978–89 are given in the following table. Further details are published in the annual Home Office volume "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom" (most recently for 1988, Cm 726).

(2) what steps he has taken to expedite immigration procedures for tourists at Heathrow and Gatwick.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The operations of the immigration service at Heathrow and Gatwick are kept under regular review and available resources allocated to meet peak demands. Selective embarkation checks were introduced in April 1987 and a streamlined arrival channel for British and other EC passengers was introduced in March 1989. Both these measures have expedited the movement of passengers through the immigration control at Heathrow, Gatwick and elsewhere. I shall continue to monitor the situation closely.

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