§ Mr. SMITHERSasked the Home Secretary whether he will have inquiry made into the results of the operation in New Zealand of the Order in Council issued by the New Zealand Government to the effect that no member of the Communist Third International is allowed to land in New Zealand, with a view to adopting a similar policy in this country?
§ Sir J. GILMOURAs regards aliens, the Order to which my hon. Friend refers would not appear to confer substantially greater powers than those contained in the Aliens Order, 1920, for excluding from the United Kingdom aliens who are known to be undesirable. As regards British subjects, there is no power to prevent them from landing in the United Kingdom, and His Majesty's Government could not, consistently with the policy which it has always maintained, promote legislation to that end.