To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 September 2007, Official Report, columns 2159-61W on foreign workers, if she will give a break down by nationality of (a) work permit holders with leave to enter for employment for 12 months or more and their dependants and (b) work permit holders with leave to enter for employment for less than 12 months and their dependants. (155991)

Copies of the table containing the requested figures for 1995 to 2006 have been placed in the Library.

Information for earlier years can be found in the Command Papers entitled “Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom” for those years, also from the Library.