§ Miss WILKINSONasked the Home Secretary whether the Committee of Experts reached any conclusion on the question of the right of British women married to foreigners to retain their own nationality; and whether the British Government contemplate any immediate step to secure this right to British women?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe function of the Committee of Experts was not to pronounce upon the merits of any particular proposal involving a change in nationality law, but to study certain aspects of the constitutional position and relationships of the various legislatures within the Empire in the light of the conclusions of the Imperial Conference of 1926. The views of the Committee on the general question of nationality as affecting the whole Commonwealth will be found on pages 24–25 of the published Report. The question to which my hon. Friend refers is among the matters to be considered at the forthcoming International Conference at The Hague, and, pending the results of that Conference, in which representatives of the Dominions are likely to take part, I am not in a position to make any statement.