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Mr. Fairbairn
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many Bangladeshi citizens there are in Great Britain and the United Kingdom; how many have no families in the United Kingdom; and what is the average size of each family in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Moyle
In the EEC Labour Force Survey of May 1977, 80 persons in the United. Kingdom gave their nationality as Bangladeshi. This would represent in the whole population between about 10,000 and 30,000 at that date; no more precise estimate can be given because of the smallness of the sample and the concentration of Bangladeshis in particular areas, not all of which would have been included in the survey. The available analyses do not provide information on their family size.