§ 27 Mr. ORMSBY-GOREasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether he has received any communications from the new Government in Egypt with regard to the future status 30 of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British military garrison in Egypt, and the responsibilities of the British Government in reference to the protection of foreign residents in Egypt; and whether he will give an undertaking that no change from the policy of previous British Governments in these matters will be effected without Parliament being first informed;
(2) whether the future relations between His Britannic Majesty and the King of Egypt are to be embodied in a new treaty; and, if so, whether the House of Commons will be given an opportunity of discussing the terms of the treaty before it is ratified by the British Government?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe Egyptian Government have as yet made no communication to me on the subject mentioned by the hon. Member, as regards which His Majesty's present Government regard themselves as bound by the Declaration to Egypt of 28th February, 1922. In the event of the Egyptian Government declaring its readiness to enter into negotiations respecting the future relations between the two countries, and in the event of these negotiations resulting in a treaty, such treaty will be laid before Parliament in accordance with the arrangement which I recently announced.