asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of individuals who have, within the years ended 5th April, 1960, and 5th April, 1961, respectively, changed their place of residence in order to reduce their liability to Income Tax and Surtax.

This information is not available.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will make a statement about the proposal for the Royal Society to establish with Exchequer support certain new research professorships in British universities.

The President of the Royal Society has proposed to my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Society should establish, with Exchequer support and with the approval of the universities concerned, a number of Research Professorships in British universities. The purpose of this scheme would be to meet a need, not at present covered, to provide opportunities for research scientists who are worthy of appointment to a Chair but for whom one is not available because they work in a borderline field or in one in which scientific developments are exceptionally rapid or for similar reasons.I am pleased to state that the Government have agreed with the Royal Society to provide further direct financial support to the Royal Society to enable them to sponsor the creation of five Professorships of this kind. It is hoped that the first appointments will be made early in 1963. The conditions of tenure for the Professorships will be settled with the universities concerned.It is intended that, subject to Parliamentary approval, the grant-in-aid to the Royal Society for 1963-64 shall contain provision for a new grant to cover the salaries of the Professors and their immediately supporting staff, and that the Scientific Investigations Grant to the Royal Society shall be increased to provide the necessary equipment. The cost of this scheme is expected to be about £35,000 next year and about £44,000 in the first full year of its operation.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made by the Departmental inquiry into the hire-purchase laws as they affect married persons under the age of 21 years.

No such inquiry is being undertaken by the Home Office.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is his intention to publish the Hall Committee report on the economic position of Northern Ireland.

The action to be taken on the report, including the question of publication, will be discussed with the Northern Ireland Government.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of applications by supermarkets, self-service stores and tobacconists for licences to sell beer, wines and spirits; and what is his policy with regard to legislation to deal with the extension of the granting of off-licences into new fields of retail trading.

I am aware that such applications are being made. It is for the local licensing justices to decide whether or not to grant a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor and I do not contemplate legislation to alter that.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Commonwealth immigrants arrived in May, 1962; from which countries they came; and what were the corresponding figures for the preceding two years.

Following are the figures:

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is now the approximately total number of immigrants that have arrived in this country since the end of the war; in which areas post-war immigrants have mostly concentrated; how far they have aggravated the local housing shortage in those areas; and if he will make a statement.

Since the war about 250,000 refugees and European volunteer workers have been admitted to this country; and the number of other aliens accepted for permanent residence has ranged from about 8,000 per annum to a present figure of about 16,000. As regards Commonwealth citizens, figures are available only since 1955 and only in respect of the West Indies and certain Commonwealth countries in Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean. The aggregate figure of net inward movement from those territories is about 450,000. Records of the distribution of the immigrant population are not kept by my Department. Questions about housing should be addressed to my right hon. Friends the Minister of Housing and Local Government and the Secretary of State for Scotland.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Central African Office) how many students from Northern Rhodesia are at present being trained in the United Kingdom to become district officers; what proportion of them is African; what educational qualifications they possess in each case; and what steps are being taken to encourage more Africans to undertake such courses.

Ten, of whom two are Africans, both holding university degrees. The Northern Rhodesia Government makes every effort to find local African officers suitable for training as potential district officers either in the United Kingdom or at the University College in Salisbury.

asked the Lord Privy Seal whether he will make a statement on the recent United Nations debate on Southern Rhodesia.

The debate on Southern Rhodesia is still in progress. The attitude of Her Majesty's Government, which has been made clear by our representative in New York, is that those proceedings exceed the terms of the Charter and might cause harm in Southern Rhodesia. We regret that the Assembly saw fit to flout their own rules in order to have the item inscribed on the agenda and we have pointed out that no situation exists in Southern Rhodesia which could possibly justify the matter being treated as urgent.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science if, in view of the radioactive iodine level now existing in certain parts of America, he will state the levels of radioactive iodine in milk in different parts of Britain at the most recent available date; and if he will publish them weekly in future.

Only very small traces of iodine 131 have been detected in this country during recent weeks and the majority of samples have shown no trace at all. It is estimated that the quantity entering milk during the last two months is less than one per cent. of that in the last quarter of 1961. The publication of detailed weekly reports would in these circumstances serve no useful purpose.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary far Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL. REPORT a list of the hospitals and other establishments in Great Britain known to the Medical Research Council where research work is being done on the cause and cure of human leukaemia showing the number of research workers so engaged at each establishment.

As I said in my reply to the hon. Member on 28th May, research on leukaemia is being undertaken by the Medical Research Council, in university departments and hospitals. It usually forms part of a wider programme of research on cancer, and so many establishments and research workers are involved that it would be impracticable to publish a complete list. If, however, the hon. Member cares to write to me about any aspect of the problem in which he is particularly interested, I should be glad to send him further details.

asked the Minister of Health if he will consult local authorities with a view to co-ordinating measures to consider the establishment of part-time courses for local authority welfare officers and other members of local authority staffs, such courses to include extra-mural departments.

This will be a matter for the Training Council to be established under the Bill now before Parliament.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the total of United Kingdom exports to the Commonwealth, and of Commonwealth exports to the United Kingdom, in 1946 and 1961, respectively.

The following is the information:

asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the percentage of United Kingdom exports going to the Commonwealth in 1938, 1945, and 1961: and what were the corresponding percentages for the United Kingdom imports from the Commonwealth.

The following is the information:

asked the Minister of Education whether he will make a further statement about the negotiating machinery for teachers' salaries.

I have nothing to add to the statement I made on 9th March in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Mr. Jennings).

asked the Secretary of State for War if he will state in terms of the present value of money the total sum spent in the most recent available twelve months period, and in corresponding periods ending in 1955 and in 1948, on clothing for the Army, the percentage spent on clothing wholly of British manufacture and the percentage spent on items predominantly manufactured from cotton textiles.

The total sum spent on clothing for the Army in the financial year 1961–62 was £5·9 million. Comparable figures for 1947–48 and 1954–55, in terms of the present value of money, are £11·6 million and £31·6 million respectively. 97 per cent. of the total expenditure in 1961–62 was spent on clothing of wholly British manufacture, and 40 per cent. of total expenditure went on items predominantly manufactured from cotton textiles in both 1961–62 and 1954–55. Comparable percentages for the earlier years are not now available, but the indications are that they were similar.