HC Deb 20 November 1972 vol 846 cc259-60W
40. Dame Irene Ward

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make representations to the French Government as to whether the legal matters affecting the future of Caroline Desramault could be expedited.

Mr. Kershaw

This is a most distressing case, but as Caroline is also a French national Her Majesty's Government have no status to make representations which might understandably be regarded by the French authorities as an interference with the course of French justice, and therefore counterproductive to Caroline's interests.