§ Mr. Butcherasked the Lord Privy Seal how many requests were received in 1979, 1980 and 1981 by the consular sections of British embassies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States for the tracing of children of British birth whose whereabouts were unknown after they had been taken out of the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. LuceI refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave on 21 December.—[Vol. 15, c.269–70.] If my hon. Friend is aware of a problem in this area, I should be grateful if he would write to me about it.