§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will establish a public inquiry into successive Governments' responsibility for child migration to Australia until the 1960s through the assisted passage scheme set up in the Empire Settlement Acts of 1922 and 1937 and the regulations that were introduced to monitor the local authorities making use of these schemes to send children to Australia to ensure the departure of only those children who would benefit from those schemes as required by section 17(2) of the Children Act 1948.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) for what reasons the files(a) MH 102 1954 "Emigration" of 15 children-correspondence with the Home Office, (b) MH 102 1889 report on the "Swan Home and Coogee Home, Perth", and (c) MH 102 1882 "Correspondence about Roman Catholic Child Migrants", relating to child migrants are closed under the 75-year rule; and whether the information contained within them can be made available to British child migrants for use in tracing relatives and counselling purposes;
(2) for what reasons the files (a) MH 102 1879 "Emigration of children to Christian Brothers Schools in Australia", (b) MH 102 1880 "Correspondence concerning the emigration of children to Christian Brothers Schools in Australia" and (c) MH 102 2022 "Emigration of young people to Australia" and a report on the Riverview Salvation Army training farm, Queensland, relating to child migrants are closed under the 75-year rule; and whether the information contained within them can be made available to British child migrants for use in tracing relatives and counselling purposes.