HC Deb 08 April 1872 vol 210 cc889-90
LORD EUSTACE CECIL

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he has any objection to lay upon the Table of the House any Correspondence that may have taken place between the Foreign Office and the French Government relative to the re-imposition of passports upon British subjects entering French territory; and, what prospect there is, if any, of the heavy Duty now charged upon the free- dom of travelling established between the two countries ten years ago being reduced or abolished?

VISCOUNT ENFIELD

replied, that he would have no objection to lay on the Table the Correspondence which had passed on the subject alluded to by his noble Friend; but he regretted to inform him, and the House, that he saw no immediate prospect of the abolition of passports upon British subjects entering French territory, or the reduction of the duty now charged.