§ Sir A. FELLasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 63,885 aliens arrived in this country during the first quarter of this year and only 192 of them were refused permission to land; how many of them proposed to settle here for the purpose of making money and how many were tourists or visitors only who would leave the country in a short time; and if he will prohibit the entry into this country of all aliens except tourists whilst the present difficulty in housing our own population continues?
§ Mr. SHORTTYes, Sir; the figures referred to in the first part of the question (not quite correctly as regards the refusals of leave to land) are given in a Return which I recently laid on the Table. The fact which appears from the same Return that in the same period 61,399 aliens left this country answers the second part of the question. As regards the third part, the answer is in the negative; any such policy would be disastrous to the world-wide operations of the British Empire in finance, commerce and all other ways.