§ Mr. SummersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the population of the United Kingdom is of Indian, Pakistani, Turkish, Irish and Afro-Caribbean origin.
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§ Mr. DorrellComparable information for the whole of the United Kingdom is not available; but within Great Britain people describing themselves as being of Indian, Pakistani, African, and West Indian ethnic minority groups respectively formed 1.4, 0.8, 0.2 and 0.9 per cent. of the total. Estimates of persons of Turkish and Irish Republic ethnic origin are not made. However, the proportions themselves born in these two countries are estimated to be 0.03 and 1.1 per cent. respectively.
These proportions are estimates averaged over three years' labour force surveys—1987, 1988 and 1989—but are nevertheless still subject to sampling errors.