HC Deb 24 May 1950 vol 475 c239W
7. Brigadier Rayner

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will arrange to give diplomatic immunity to the non-British personnel at our embassies and legations abroad.

Mr. Ernest Davies

No, because it is not within the power of His Majesty's Government, to make arrangements of the kind which the hon. and gallant Member has in mind.

99. Brigadier Rayner

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether under certain circumstances he will consider awarding British citizenship to foreign nationals, who by their long and loyal service to British embassies, legations and consulates, or in other British organisations abroad have become suspect in their own countries.

Mr. de Freitas

Foreign nationals who have given long and loyal service in British embassies, legations and consulates may apply for naturalisation and in 1949 about 100 such persons were naturalised. A foreign national employed abroad by a British organisation which is not under the Crown cannot reckon his service with that organisation towards the residential qualification under the British Nationality Act, but if such a person had the necessary period of residence in the United Kingdom or a Colony any application from him would be considered.