Mr. GIDEON MURRAYasked the Home Secretary how many aliens are at present interned in the United Kingdom; how many aliens have been deported since the 1st December; and how many interned aliens have been liberated since the 1st December and on what dates?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe latest state of the internment camps in this country shows the number of interned enemy civilians as 18,607. Since 1st December 6,132 alien enemies have been repatriated, of whom over 6,000 have been interned. Since the same date 118 persons who had been interned as alien enemies have been released, of whom more than two-thirds were released on being duly recognised as Czecho-Slovaks and therefore ceasing to be enemies, and the remainder had been interned merely pending further consideration of their cases by the Advisory Committee, who eventually recommended exemption from internment.