HC Deb 19 March 1956 vol 550 c804
6. Mr. Robens

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will indicate the British Centres in Germany which it is proposed shall be closed down.

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd

It is proposed that during the coming year the British Centre at Frankfurt should be closed down.

Mr. Robens

Is that the full list of centres which are to be closed down? Are there not some proposals to close down other centres after this year?

Mr. Lloyd

So far as I am aware, the only other proposal is in regard to economies in the running of nine other centres—not to their closing down.

Mr. Robens

Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the Russian Government are now looking for sites to open centres for themselves, and that upon the vacation of British Centres it is possible that at least one of them will be opened as a Russian centre?

Mr. Lloyd

I shall be obliged if the right hon. Gentleman will give me particulars of that case.