§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he plans to take to bring to justice those British citizens who collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of the Channel Islands during the second world war in rounding up Jewish and other people for deportation to concentration camps; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Jack[holding answer 14 January 1993]: The Channel Islands are not part of the United Kingdom, but internally self-governing dependencies of the Crown with their own judicial systems. It is for the islands authorites to consider whether offences under their laws have been committed and to act accordingly.
If evidence is forthcoming of conduct in the Channel Islands during the period of German occupation constituting an offence justiciable in the United Kingdom but not in the Channel Islands themselves, that will be referred to the prosecuting authorities here.