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Mr. Rose
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the figures of 155,076 East Europeans and 107,991 West Europeans resident in the United Kingdom at January, 1961 include those who became British citizens between 1945 and that date; and how many Europeans received British nationality during that period.
Mr. George Thomas
Those figures do not include any persons who had acquired British nationality by 1st January, 1961. The number of Europeans naturalised in the United Kingdom between 1945 and that date was as follows:
| West Europeans | 38,048 |
| East Europeans | 50,991 |
| Total | 89,039 |
Separate figures are not available of the number of Europeans who obtained British nationality during that period by registration, either as minors or on the strength of marriage to a British husband.