§ 106. Sir C. CAYZERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been directed to the recent increase in the number of aliens charged with offences; whether he has any information as to the extent to which this increase is attributable to the recent extension from two months to three months of the period of grace at the end of which aliens must report themselves to the police; and whether he has considered a reversion to the former period of two months' grace?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir Herbert Samuel)I have no reason to think that there has been any marked increase of the kind indicated. No separate figures of offences committed by aliens are available. If the hon. Member has any information on the point, I should be grateful if he would let me have it. I understand that the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has no evidence that the extension of the time allowed for registration from two to three months has had any effect at all on the number of aliens charged in the Metropolitan Police District.