§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEasked the Home Secretary whether, as a result of revelations recently made before the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, he is taking any steps to secure co-ordinated legislation and closer co-operation between the different countries concerned in the illicit manufacture and distribution of dangerous drugs?
§ Mr. SHORTThe Home Office has for a long time past done everything in its power to promote co-operation in the enforcement of the international conventions relating to dangerous drugs and in the suppression of the illicit traffic. As the hon. and gallant Member will be aware, the League's Advisory Committee, on which His Majesty's Government is represented, has given constant attention to this question, and as a result of the recommendations which they have drawn up, very great progress in the direction of co-ordinated action and closer cooperation has been made. The discoveries referred to in the question were, in fact, made as a result of the co-operation between the authorities of several countries. I understand that the Advisory Committee, in the report which it has submitted to the Council of the League on the proceedings at its recent meeting, has made further recommendations on the subject, and these will receive the careful and sympathetic consideration of His Majesty's Government.