Clause 1. — (Application of Part I.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Immigrants Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 February 1962.

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Photo of Mr Norman Pannell Mr Norman Pannell , Liverpool Kirkdale 12:00, 6 February 1962

When I have concluded this argument I shall be only too pleased to give way to the hon. Member, but perhaps he will allow me to finish it before he intervenes.

The Report, after giving the estimated increase in the population of the United Kingdom as 369,000 from mid-1959 to mid-1960, states: The increase of population from mid-1959 to mid-1960 consisted largely of a natural increase"— that is, an excess of births over deaths— of 251,000, partly of an inward balance of migration of 108,000 and a small residue, 10,000, which is caused by other movements of the population. It goes on: The inward balance of migration was also the largest for many years. Since 1954–55 the balance which was previously outward has been increasingly inward. In the calendar year 1960 the inward balance is estimated to have exceeded the natural increase.