§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the Government's latest proposals for amending the rules of nationality in regard to the children from overseas of wives who are British citizens, married to husbands who are foreign citizens.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe Government, in their Green Paper "British Nationality 439W Law—Discussion of possible changes" (Cmnd. 6795), envisage that any fresh legislation would enable wives who are born in the United Kingdom to transmit citizenship to their children born abroad in the same way as husbands transmit their citizenship under the existing law.