§ Colonel CHALONERasked whether it is the intention to fulfil the pledge given to a Jewish deputation at the by-election at Manchester in 1908 by the present Secretary of State for the Home Department-, in which he said that he was authorised to say on behalf of the Government that receiving houses for immigrants must be provided wherever necessary, even if it required legislation; that the Government did not object to allowing right of appeal from decisions of Immigration Board to King's Bench; and that better provision should be made for the interpretation of evidence?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThese questions have been for some weeks past receiving my attention. In several of the ports there are already satisfactory places for the reception of the immigrants, but I am 1048 making enquiry with regard to the others, and especially London. The question of appeals would require legislation, and no legislation is at present possible. I believe the provision for interpretation is now good—at any rate, the Home Office, who invited complaints two years ago, have received none. But this, too, is a subject of inquiry.