HC Deb 01 May 1990 vol 171 c467W
Mr. Tim Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom in 1989.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The provisional figure for the number of persons accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom in 1989 is 48,600. More details are published in table 3 of Home Office statistical bulletin issue 8/90 "Control of Immigration: Statistics—Fourth Quarter and Year 1989", a copy of which is in the Library.