§ 39. Mr. G. Straussasked the Home Secretary whether, in order to avoid delay, duplication, and the waste of much technical and scientific knowledge, he will consider the establishment of one authority to consider the reliability of alien technical and scientific workers in this country, and, that when an individual has been passed by this authority, he will be open to accept employment in war industries without further investigation?
§ Mr. PeakeThere is no duplication of authorities concerned with the question of an alien's reliability, but I think what my hon. Friend has in mind is the question whether an alien who has once been permitted to take employment in a war industry can be allowed to change his employment without the necessity of obtaining a fresh permit. That is a question to which consideration is being given.