§ 45. Mr. PERKINSasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the danger to the State which is to be apprehended from the continued employment in Government Departments of persons of German nationality, whether naturalised or not, he will consider the desirability of making forthwith a general rule that all such persons shall be discharged immediately from the service of the Government?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe Prime Minister has asked me to reply to this question. I have made inquiries and I am informed that no persons of German nationality or naturalised British subjects who were formerly of German nationality are employed at the War Office, the Admiralty, the Foreign Office, the Treasury, or the Ministry of Munitions, with the exception of one official as to whom I would refer to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War to my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford on the 13th December, 1915. If my hon. Friend has any particular case in mind in any other Department I shall be glad to make inquiries.