Written Answers
Zambia: Aid
asked Her Majesty's Government:With regard to Overseas Aid Programme and procedure set out in O.D. Paper 5,
Planning British Aid Programme, what, in the case of Zambia, is the total published aid from the British Government for each of the past four years for which figures are available; also for the like period the total commitment repayment fulfilments; also what are the repayment commitments for the next four years.
British aid to Zambia over the period 1973 to 1976 was as follows:
| 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
| 7·1 | 8·4 | 9·9 | 11·4 |
| 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
| 0·4 | 0·3 | 0·3 | 0·3 |
| 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
| 0·24 | 0·24 | 0·24 | 0·27 |
Taxation Revenue
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list in the
Official Report what was the proportion of total income tax and surtax/higher rate of tax raised from each decile of income
Year(1) | Percentage of total tax paid by deciles of taxpayers(2) | ||||||||||
Top 10% | 10–20% | 20–30% | 30–40% | 40–50% | 50–60% | 60–70% | 70–80% | 80–90% | Bottom 10% | Total Tax (£ million) | |
| 1949–50 | 72 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1,101 |
| 1959–60 | 57 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1,735 |
| 1970–71 | 41 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6,158 |
| 1971–72 | 39 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6,356 |
| 1972–73 | 40 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6,572 |
| 1973–74 | 38 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8,045 |
| 1974–75 | 37 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11,846 |
| 1975–76 | 35 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15,987 |
| 1976–77(3) | 34 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18,300 |
| NOTES:— | |||||||||||
| (1) Years up to and including 1972–73 take income tax and surtax together. Subsequent years relate to income tax (including higher rates and the additional rate on investment income). | |||||||||||
| (2) Married couples are counted as one taxpayer. Only tax paid by individuals (that is, excluding trusts et cetera) is included. | |||||||||||
| (3) 1976–77 is a provisional estimate. | |||||||||||
Immigrants And The Police Force
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many coloured immigrants arrived in the United Kingdom in each of the years 1967–1977 from Pakistan, India and Nigeria respectively; and, of these entrants, how many were recruited into the United Kingdom police force in each case.
Home Office statistics on the control of immigration record only the citizenship
taxpayers in 1945, 1950, 1960, 1970 and each subsequent year.
The figures in the following table are for the financial years 1949–50, 1959–60, and 1970–71 to 1976–77 inclusive. Data for 1945 are not obtainable.or nationality of those admitted to the United Kingdom and not their colour. The available information on the number of persons accepted for settlement is given in the annual Command Papers the latest of which is
Control of Immigration, Statistics, 1976 (Cmnd. 6883). The number of Pakistanis, Indians and Nigerians who arrived in the United Kingdom during the period 1967–77 and who joined police forces in England and Wales is not available.
House adjourned at three minutes before seven o'clock.