HL Deb 26 February 1946 vol 139 cc911-2WA
LORD AILWYN

asked His Majesty's Government how many unnaturalized Germans are employed in Government Departments, and what is the distribution of these persons among the Departments concerned.

LORD PAKENHAM

Under Defence Regulation 60D aliens may be temporarily employed in the Government Service if they possess special qualifications and there are no suitably qualified British subjects readily available for employment in the post concerned. Specific Treasury consent is required for the employment of an enemy alien in any non-industrial post, and that consent has been given in the case of ninety-seven persons of German nationality, or who are now Stateless but were formerly of German nationality. The Departments concerned are shown below. In some of these cases employment has been terminated.

Admiralty 18
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 1
Air Ministry 3
British Museum 3
Colonial Office 1
Ministry of Economic Warfare 2
Enemy Branch (Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare) 3
Ministry of Food 4
Foreign Office P.I.D 6
Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare (Economic Advisory Branch) 11
Ministry of Fuel and Power 3
General Post Office 2
Ministry of Information 4
Ministry of Labour 6
Lord Chancellor's Department (Cambridge) 1
Natural History Museum 1
Postal and Telegraph Censorship 1
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 6
Ministry of Supply and Aircraft Production 11
War Office 5
Ministry of War Transport 1
Ministry of Works 2
Department of Agriculture for Scotland 1
Scottish Office, Edinburgh 1
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LORD AILWYN

asked His Majesty's Government how many naturalized British subjects have been admitted to permanent appointment in His Majesty's Civil Service since the revision of the nationality rule contained in the Civil Service Commission Regulation, dated November 21, 1944, how many of these are of German birth, and what is the distribution of these persons among the Government Departments concerned.

LORD PAKENHAM

No central information is available.

House adjourned at twenty-three minutes before five o'clock.