HC Deb 12 March 1958 vol 584 c52W
Mr. F. M. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government will now favourably consider representation, actively or by observers, on the following committees of experts set up by the Council of Europe, namely, those on the Liability of Inn-Keepers, the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, the Removal of Legal Impediments to the Exchange of Television Programmes in Europe, and Compulsory Motor Insurance, and on the Sub-Committee on Frontier Formalities.

Mr. Ian Harvey

Her Majesty's Government are full members of the Committee of Experts on the Liability of Innkeepers; the Committee for the Removal of Legal Impediments to the Exchange of Television Programmes in Europe; and have latterly become full members of the Committee on Compulsory Motor Insurance.

No date has yet been fixed for the first meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, but the Secretariat of the Council of Europe has already been notified of Her Majesty's Government's intention to participate fully in this Committee also.

Her Majesty's Government now also have an observer on the Sub-Committee on Frontier Formalities.

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