HC Deb 04 June 1940 vol 361 cc764-5
36. Major Carver

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether during the emergency, he will consider the advisability of visitors to licensed premises or boarding-houses, who may be requiring rooms, producing their identity cards to prove their British nationality, in addition to the required written statement?

The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)

The production of a National Registration identity card would not secure the hon. and gallant Member's object, since these cards do not show whether their bearers are of British or foreign nationality.

Mr. Radford

Why do they not?

Mr. Peake

That is a question with which the Ministry of Health are more concerned than the Home Office because the Ministry of Health prescribe forms of this kind.

Mr. De la Bère

Is it not desirable that these antiquated methods should be done away with?

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