§ LORD AVEBURYasked Her Majesty's Government:
(1) What is the policy of Her Majesty's Government regarding entry of dependants, spouses and near-relatives of British citizens from Uganda who themselves are not citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies;
(2) Whether they will give an undertaking that where a husband and wife arrive from Uganda, one being a British citizen, they will both be admitted;
(3) Why the High Commissioner in Uganda is insisting on the production of children's birth certificates as proof that they are the children of the applying parents even where the names of the children are included on the parents' passports and in order to do this the birth certificate has already been produced.
THE MINISTER OF STATE, HOME OFFICE (VISCOUNT COLVILLE OF CULROSS)The dependants (including the wife) of a United Kingdom passport holder being admitted for settlement on expulsion from Uganda are also admitted for settlement. But a husband is not admitted as a dependant of his wife.
Applicants for entry certificates in Uganda, in order to avoid the possibility of a second journey to the High Commission, are asked to bring birth certificates of dependent children so that where necessary their names can be added to their parents' passports, or they can be issued with their own passports if they have reached the age of 16.
House adjourned at a quarter before five o'clock.