§ 10. Sir MARTIN CONWAYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is now any objection to extending to the holders of so-called party tickets who travel in groups of 25 the arrangement at present obtaining for the holders of week-end tickets to certain ports in Belgium and France enabling them to visit these countries without holding a passport, in view of the fact that the issue of party tickets is much more carefully controlled than that of week-end tickets, and that they are specially designed to enable persons of moderate means to take a Continental holiday?
§ Major Sir HARRY BARNSTON (for Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS)My right hon. Friend has been asked to reply. He finds that some 20,000 people yearly take their holidays in this manner, and the privilege is not restricted to British subjects. My right hon. Friend is informed that the return of these travellers without passports would add to the existing difficulties of administering the Aliens Regulations.