Immigrants Advisory Service

HC Deb 14 March 1973 vol 852 cc370-1W

Mr. Skeet

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offices of the Immigrants Advisory Service have been established abroad; how many are likely to be opened during the next 12 months; and whether it is in accordance with the charter of the IAS that it should be granted the privilege of using the diplomatic bag for communications.

Mr. Lane

The activities of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service outside the United Kingdom are not assisted from public funds, and my right hon. Friend has no ministerial responsibility for them. I suggest that my hon. Friend asks the director of the service for the information sought in the first and second parts of his Question.

I understand from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs that there is no question of allowing the service to make use of the diplomatic bag.