§ Mr. SAKLATVALAasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, seeing that an application was recently granted to a troop of boy scouts to visit Germany, he will state on what grounds applications for passports made out by the parents of five British children to travel on the Continent under the guidance and guardianships of Messrs. McIlhone and Gallacher were refused?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe children were being taken to Russia for purposes of Communist propaganda. This was held to be contrary to the public interest.
§ Mr. SAKLATVALAasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the position of people desiring the issue of a passport to visit the territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics for the purpose of business, health, education, or holiday now that relations have been broken off between the Government of that country and His Majesty's Government?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONSince His Majesty's Government are no longer in relations with the Soviet Union Government, British passports are not endorsed as valid for entry into Soviet territory.