§ Wing-Commander Jamesasked the Home Secretary when he will issue the next promised periodical Return of refugees; and whether the Return issued on 28th February includes persons who during the period covered entered the United Kingdom for employment as domestic servants from Greater Germany, and who will not be able to return there at will?
§ Sir S. HoareA return of refugees similar to the one circulated with the Debates of the 24th March last will be issued next week. The previous return included women who have been permitted to enter this country to undertake domestic work.
§ Wing-Commander Jamesasked the Home Secretary how many refugees have been permitted to start new businesses in this country; how many have been granted permits to take employment; and whether such persons have been given any assurances that they will be granted naturalisation or that they may apply for naturalisation at the conclusion of the statutory waiting period?
§ Sir S. HoareNo figures are available for the period from April, 1933, to June, 1936, but since that date more than 500 refugees have been allowed to start businesses in this country, many of them in the Special Areas or older industrial areas. No figures are available showing how many have been authorised to take employment, but the great majority of those so authorised are employed in domestic work or are in temporary employment as trainees with a view to emigration. In778W no case in which a refugee has been permitted to establish himself in business or to take employment has an assurance been given that he would be granted naturalisation when he had fulfilled the statutory period of residence should he apply for it.