HC Deb 14 November 1956 vol 560 c24W
Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to implement the assurances given by Her Majesty's Government that asylum will be offered in the United Kingdom to 2,500 Hungarian refugees.

Major Lloyd-George

A team of imigration and medical officers has gone to Austria in order that the Hungarian refugees who wish to come to this country may receive there the necessary clearances that will enable them on arrival here to go at once to the temporary accommodation that is being arranged to receive them; and a representative of the British Council for Aid to Refugees has also gone to Austria in order that arrangements for clearance, transport and reception may as far as possible be co-ordinated. An inter-Departmental Working Party has been set up to assist the Council in their work of reception and re-settlement.