Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 7 July (HL1157), how many households in (1) Greater London, and (2) the United Kingdom, had a household reference person born (a) in the United Kingdom, and (b) outside the United Kingdom, in the 2001 census.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
Please see the letter attached from the Permanent Secretary for the Office for National Statistics.
Lord Green of Deddington
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
15 July 2026
Dear Lord Green,
As Permanent Secretary of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responding to your
Parliamentary Question asking, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of
Stoke-on-Trent on 7 July (HL1157) [1], how many households in (1) Greater London, and (2)
the United Kingdom, had a household reference person born (a) in the United Kingdom,
and (b) outside the United Kingdom, in the 2001 Census (HL1903).
The census is conducted separately by the statistical agencies for England and Wales,
Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and outputs are published independently. There is no
single UK-wide 2001 Census dataset. Therefore, the data presented here relates to Greater
London and England and Wales rather than the UK.
Table 1 below shows the number of households with a Household Reference Person (HRP)
born in and outside of the UK for Greater London and for England and Wales. The figures
for Greater London include all 32 boroughs and the City of London.
Please note that these figures are not available as part of the 2001 Census standard
outputs and were produced through our commissioned tables service. Table C1341 shows
the data at the England and Wales level, and C1347 shows the data at the London
Borough level.
We will place copies of these commissioned tables in the House of Lords Library.
Yours sincerely,
Darren Tierney
[1] https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-22/hl1157
Table 1: The number of households with a Household Reference Person (HRP) born
in and outside of the UK in Greater London and in England and Wales
Households | 2001 |
HRP born in UK (Greater London) | 2,078,875 |
HRP born outside UK (Greater London) | 937,126 |
HRP born in UK (England and Wales) | 19,481,557 |
HRP born outside UK (England and Wales) | 2,178,918 |
Sources: ONS, 2001 Census Commissioned table C1341, Country of birth of the HRP (born
in the UK/born outside the UK); ONS, 2001 Census Commissioned table C1347, Tenure by
country of birth of Household Reference Persons (HRPs)
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many households in (1) Greater London, and (2) the United Kingdom, had a household reference person born (a) in the United Kingdom, and (b) outside the United Kingdom, in 2010 and 2025.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
Please see the letter attached from the Permanent Secretary for the Office for National Statistics.
Lord Green of Deddington
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
29 June 2026
Dear Lord Green,
As Permanent Secretary of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many households in (1) Greater London, and (2) the United Kingdom, had a household reference person born (a) in the United Kingdom, and (b) outside the United Kingdom, in 2010 and 2025 (HL1157).
The information is derived from census data and is therefore available for 2011 and 2021.
However, there is no single UK-wide census dataset. The census is conducted separately by the statistical agencies for England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and outputs are published independently.
As a result, the data presented here relates to England and Wales only (with London shown separately), rather than the UK as a whole.
Table 1 below shows the number of households with a Household Reference Person (HRP) born in and outside of the UK for London and for England and Wales. The figures for London include all 32 boroughs and the City of London. For the 2011 Census, the data was not available as part of the standard outputs. As a result, it was produced separately through our commissioned tables service. The 2011 dataset is from 2011 Census commissioned table CT0237.
The 2021 Census data in table 1 below was obtained using the ONS’s ‘Create a custom dataset’ tool. We will place a copy of this dataset, HL1157 2021 Census custom dataset, HRP England and Wales & London, in the House of Commons Library.
Yours sincerely,
Darren Tierney
Table 1: The number of households with a Household Reference Person (HRP) born in and outside of the UK in London and in England and Wales
Households | 2011 | 2021 |
HRP born in UK (London) | 1,880,514 | 1,760,641 |
HRP born outside UK (London) | 1,385,659 | 1,663,249 |
HRP born in UK (England and Wales) | 19,987,889 | 20,281,288 |
HRP born outside UK (England and Wales | 3,378,155 | 4,501,911 |
Sources: ONS, 2011 Census Commissioned table CT0237 and ONS, HL1157 2021 Census custom dataset, HRP England and Wales & London
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of Palestinian children currently detained by Israeli authorities; and what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the transfer of Palestinian children detainees from the West Bank to military detention facilities in Israel.
Answered by Baroness Chapman of Darlington
I refer the Noble Lord to the answer provided on 8 December 2025 in response to Question HL11828.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that Dr Fawaz Akhras, a British citizen, is able to return to the United Kingdom.
Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Any requests for assistance to help facilitate the return of British Nationals to the UK are considered with published policy, and applications may take longer during periods of high demand, or when further enquiries need to be made.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office provides information on the assistance we can provide, and to whom, in our publication: Support for British nationals abroad (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/support-for-british-nationals-abroad).
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish the conclusions of the Communities and Recovery Steering Group regarding the causes of the violent disorder in summer 2024.
Answered by Lord Khan of Burnley
As set out in PQ 20983, we will publish further information about the CRSG in due course.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Home Secretary on 4 December (HC Deb cols 41–43), what are the specific components of the 300,000 per annum reduction in migration figure he provided, and whether this number refers to the future inflow of student migration or to the net inflow of migrants overall.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
Analytical work has been undertaken across Government to support decision making in this process, and an Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government who has held office since 1 October 1993 as the minister responsible for housing; and what were the dates of their appointment.
Answered by Lord Evans of Rainow - Opposition Whip (Lords)
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities does not maintain an historical list of ministerial appointments and the dates of those appointments. Such information is publicly available through a variety of sources.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government who has held office since 1 October 1993 as (1) Home Secretary, and (2) minister responsible for immigration; and what were the dates of their appointment.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
The Home Office believes that this information is readily available to the Peer online.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Minister of State for Immigration on 8 June (HCWS837), how many asylum applications there have been since 28 June 2022 from nationals of (1) Afghanistan, (2) Eritrea, (3) Libya, (4) Syria, (5) Yemen, and (6) Sudan, together with the number of accompanying dependants of each nationality.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ on GOV.UK. Data on asylum applications by nationality and applicant type are published in table Asy_D01 of the Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets: found here. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of March 2023.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’ on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the to the Written Statement by the Minister of State for Immigration on 8 June (HCWS837), what are the reasons for their policy changes on the treatment of asylum seekers set out in that Written Statement.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
The Illegal Migration Bill represents a considerably stronger means of tackling the same issue that the differentiation policy sought to address: people making dangerous and unnecessary journeys through safe countries to claim asylum in the UK.