§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Paul Stulick, an unnaturalised enemy alien, is carrying on a restaurant with a licence to sell intoxicating liquors in the West Central district; whether he has official information showing that such 418W restaurant is the meeting place of treasonable Germans; and, if so, why it is allowed to exist?
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Home Secretary how many enemy aliens, male and female, are still uninterned; how many have been interned since the House rose; and how many have been released from internment?
Mr. SAMUELThe figures of alien enemies interned and at large are substantially the same as those which I stated and explained to the House in the Debate on the Home Office Vote on 29th June. The number interned since the House rose is about seventy. The number released during the same period is thirty-one, of whom fifteen are Austrians or Hungarians released to work on farms to meet the shortage of agricultural labour, and four are Syrian Arabs.
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Home Secretary whether he has yet had a report from the Committee on the subject of enemy aliens in prohibited areas; and how many of such aliens are still allowed to live in such areas?
Mr. SAMUELThe two Commissioners have not yet presented their Report, but I understand they hope to do so shortly. Until they have completed their inquiries I do not think figures can usefully be given.