§ MR. MUNDELLAasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he is prepared to state to the House the substance of any Correspondence with the Government of France on the continued deportation of political prisoners to this Country; and, whether, seeing that batches of these unfortunate persons continue to arrive in a state of absolute destitution, the Government of France cannot be made responsible for their temporary maintenance?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, Her Majesty's Government have been and are still in active correspondence with the French Government on the subject of the deportation of political prisoners to this country, and I can assure the hon. Member and the House that there shall be no unnecessary delay in laying the Correspondence before Parliament. I am not at present in a position to reply to the latter portion of the hon. Gentleman's Question.