SIR MANCHERJEE BHOWNAG-GREE (Bethnal Green, N.E.On behalf of the hon. Member for S.W. Bethnal Green I beg to ask the Secretary of State 998 for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the evidence given before the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration on the 26th February by Mr. Haden Corser, to the effect that business in the police court at Worship Street is blocked by the number of cases in regard to wages disputes, in which, both parties being aliens, all the evidence has to be interpreted, and that, in consequence of these cases, persons attending the court upon other business are kept waiting from day to day; and whether he will take steps for the relief of English-speaking persons having business in the Worship Street Police Court.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS, Kent, St. Augustine's)It is of course the case, as Mr. Haden Corser said, that in courts where there is frequent need to employ an interpreter the work of the court is sometimes delayed; but I do not see my way to take any steps in the matter until there has at least been an opportunity of considering the Report of the Royal Commission now dealing with the question of alien immigration.