§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will remove the Government's ban on selected persons from selected countries who are followers of the Church of Scientology from entering Great Britain on the 247W grounds that they are dangerous to Great Britain.
§ Mr. WhitelawI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to his question on 21 May.—[Vol. 967, col. 22.]
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department first commenced an assessment of all the recommendations of the Foster report on scientologists; on how many occasions his Department has declared that it has not yet completed its assessment of the report; when he expects to publish his views and assessment of the report; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WhitelawSince publication of the Foster report in December 1971, its recommendations have been considered
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Hertfordshire … 128 125 111 (86) 3 Humberside … 440 424 296 (67) 16 Kent … 952 930 854 (89) 22 Lancashire … 2,935 2,926 2,662 (90) 9 Leicestershire … 124 115 93 (75) 9 Lincolnshire … 378 376 360 (95) 2 Merseyside … 256 249 236 (92) 7 Norfolk … 897 805 709 (79) 92 Northamptonshire … 78 78 76 (97) 0 Northumberland … 165 165 139 (84) 0 Nottinghamshire … 119 118 106 (89) 1 Oxfordshire … 235 167 130 (55) 68 Powys … … 172 55 38 (22) 117 Salop … … 123 123 116 (94) 0 Scilly Isles … 64 40 30 (46) 24 Somerset … 399 297 250 (62) 102 by successive Governments. The answer to the second part of the question is as often as my Department has been asked. As to the third part, I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to his question on 21 May.—[Vol. 967, col. 22.]