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Mr. Robert C. Brown asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of young people aged between 16 and 20 years involved in crime during 1980 were unemployed at the time of arrest; and what were he comparable figures for each year since 1970.
Mr. Mayhew: Information is not collected centrally on the employment status of persons arrested, found guilty or cautioned for offences.
British Nationality Bill
Mr. J. Enoch Powell asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now considered the need to amend the wording of new clause 9 of the British Nationality Bill to ensure that he or his successors are able legally to give effect to his undertaking that its provisions will cover all persons to which the original clause 7 of the Bill extended.
Mr. Whitelaw: Yes.
My view is that subsection 3(a) of new clause 9 would enable me or my successors to deal with cases of this kind. The words "special circumstances of any particular case" mean that each case would be separately considered and that discretion could properly be exercised in a number of cases which exhibited broadly similar features. In the light of the undertaking which the Government have given, it veems clear that there would be special circumstances in would have any case to which the original extended but which was not covered by new clause 9.
Illegal Parking
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Mr. Arthur Lewis asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of widespread non- annlication of the law against illegal parking of vehicles,
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Mr. Raison: My right hon. Friend has seen copies of (2231) the report prepared by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and of the resolution adopted by that Parliament. It is not the practice for member States to make formal responses to such reports and resolutions. The matters with which this report deals will form part of our continuing discussions with the European Commission on the immigration rules.
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Mr. Whitelaw: The chairman of the National Association of Community Relations Councils has written to my hon. Friend the Minister of State requesting help from Government funds. South Glamorgan Committee for Community relations has written in support of this request. Financial help for the national association is within the discretion of the Commission for Racial Equality: there are no separate Home Office funds which could be made available. The association has been invited to meet officials to discuss its dissatisfaction with the present arrangements.
Serious Crime (Ethnic Minorities)
Mr. Michael Brown asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there has been a significant -mhor of cerious crimes instigated and