§ Mr. Roebuckasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will instruct the High Commissioner in Kenya to make representations to the Kenya Government about its edict which discriminates against United Kingdom journalists by forbidding certain of them to be members of their union; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. FoleyNo. The rules governing trade union membership for employees of the Kenya Government arc a matter for that Government.
As far as I have been able to ascertain, there are no journalists holding British passports employed in that capacity by the Kenya Government. Even if there 299W were, there would seem to be no question of discrimination against them, since my understanding is that the Kenya Government has decided that all journalists in its employ, whatever their nationality, shall resign from the Kenya Union of Journalists.