Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Tachwedd 1965.
Mr Philip Goodhart
, Beckenham
12:00,
4 Tachwedd 1965
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many experienced immigration officers have been sent to reinforce the staff in certain posts overseas since the statement of 4th February, 1965.
Sir Frank Soskice
, Newport (Monmouthshire/Gwent)
Six, of whom one was seconded for only three months and has now returned.
Mr Philip Goodhart
, Beckenham
Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman see whether this figure cannot be sharply increased? Does he realise that stopping Commonwealth immigrants at the ports and airports to the extent which he indicated in his last Answer represents considerable personal tragedy for those involved and that the best way of dealing with this is to do the screening overseas?
Sir Frank Soskice
, Newport (Monmouthshire/Gwent)
I realise that. The officers posted are full-time officers and the posts to which they have been sent have been carefully selected.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
