§ 80. Mr. Peakeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when and where the Conference of Dominion representatives will meet which is to examine detailed proposals for changes in the law relating to the nationality of married women; and who will represent the United Kingdom at it.
§ Mr. EdeCorrespondence on this subject is proceeding, but it is hoped to arrange for the Conference to meet in London very early in the New Year. The 145W Conference will be a conference of experts and officials and it is proposed that the United Kingdom members shall include the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office and legal and other representatives of the Departments concerned.
§ 87. Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is yet in a position to make a statement regarding the retention of British nationality by women who have married foreigners or British subjects resident in the Dominions.
§ Mr. EdeBritish born women who marry British subjects resident in the Dominions do not under existing law lose British nationality but the question of allowing British born women who in certain cases lose British nationality on marriage to foreigners is one of the nationality matters to be discussed with representatives of the Dominions at a conference to he held early in the New Year.