§ Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURYasked the Home Secretary whether, seeing that he has no power to deport undesirable Russian subjects back to Russia who have been convicted of offences in this country if the Russian Government refuse to take them back, he will take steps to come to some arrangement with the Russian Government so that undesirable Russians are not kept here permanently at the taxpayers' expense?
Mr. HENDERSONAn alien cannot be deported from the United Kingdom except to a country of which he is recognised as a national, and, whatever the nationality claimed, there may in some cases be difficulty in obtaining recogni-644W tion. The question of the recognition of Russian nationals by the Soviet Government is among the subjects to be discussed with the Soviet representatives at present in this country.