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[ 20 OCTOBER 1981]
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UNITED KINGDOM AND COLONIES: CITIZENSHIP STATISTICS
Baroness Elles asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will publish:
(i) the number of United Kingdom and Colonies citizens with right of abode who were born outside the United Kingdom;
(ii) the number of registrations of births of
children born to citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies in foreign countries, by year and country, since 1970;
(iii) the number (or estimated number) of citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, with right of abode, resident in the nine other Member States of the European Community.
Lord Belstead: (i) No reliable estimates can be made of the number of United Kingdom and Colonies citizens with right of abode who were born outside the United Kingdom.
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OVERSEAS ADMISSIONS TO UNITED KINGDOM
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Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will publish statistics on admissions to the United Kingdom of various nationalities in the period 1st October 1980 to 31st March 1981.
Lord Belstead: Following is the available informa- tion:
ADMISSIONS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF SELECTED NATIONALITIES, 1ST OCTOBER 1980-31st March 1981
Country issuing passport
Australia Bangladesh Canada
People not accepted for settlement
Admitted Persons admitted
Total Total(1)
for
for other than
accepted admitted
6 months
6 months
for settlement
Visitors (incl.
business Others
visitors)
83,670
1,200
15,120
900 100,890
6,080
720
880
2,660
10,350
92,470
480
5,440
160
98,550
Cyprus
8,010 2,860
1,660
40
12,580
Ghana
9,860
2,600
1,420
30
13,920
Hong Kong ..
8,860
1,580
6,110
270
16,820
India...
60,480
6,850
7,210
880
75,430
Iran
2,250
5,260 5,190
70
12,770
4,400 2,970
2,900
10
10,280
4,420
740
880
50
6,100
18,840 360
6,460
590
26,240
57,170 9,360
9,780
30
76,340
22,310
4,660 3,930
3,350
34,240
5,960 1,330 1,640
40
8,980
556,920
3,390 55,790
330
616,420
Commonwealth 438,830 36,090 72,740
7,200 554,860
Total Foreign
1,506,080 84,090 155,650
7,480 1,753,310
Total
NCWP
266,160 38,700 49,660
8,910 363,430
Thousands
Total ISC
88,870 12,230 12,030
6,890 120,010
(ii) Summary figures for the number of registrations at missions abroad of births of children born to citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies are given in the table below; however, such totals are under-estimates of births to citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies overseas because there are no birth registers at missions in certain Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. The information in the table below could be broken down for individual countries only at disproportionate cost.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AT MISSIONS ABROAD
Iraq Mauritius New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Sri Lanka USA...
Total
In
In Commonwealth Non-Commonwealth Total
countries(1)
countries
(1)The figures in this table have been rounded; because of this the sum of the constituent items may not agree with the totals shown.
1970 1971
::
4.8
10.7
15.5
3.5
11.1
14-6
1972
2.7
11.6
14.3
1973
2-7
12.4
15-1
1974
2.2
12.1
14.3
1975
2.1
12.6
14.6
1976
1.9
13.0
14.9
1977
1.5
13.2
14-7
1978
1.5
13.0
14-5
1979
1.2
12.3
13.5
(1)Excluding Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Zimbabwe.
(iii) For estimates of the number of United Kingdom and Colonies citizens resident in the nine other member states of the European Community, I would refer my noble friend to the reply given to a question by the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, on 18th February 1981 (Hansard, vol. 417, col. 768).
PRISON ESTABLISHMENTS
Lord Kilmany asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the decision to proceed no further with the conversion of Ministry of Defence camps into prisons under Section 33(2) of the Prison Act 1952 indicates a fall in the prison population to such an extent that over-crowding is no longer a problem; and whether they can provide figures to justify such an assumption.
Lord Belstead: Overcrowding remains a very serious problem despite a marginal reduction in the population of Prison Department establishments from 45,600 on 17th July to 43,800 on 15th October. The extra strain on the prison service of manning further camps could not, however, be justified at present.
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