Refugees from Egypt (Visas)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 December 1956.

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Photo of Mr Gwilym Lloyd George Mr Gwilym Lloyd George , Newcastle upon Tyne North 12:00, 20 December 1956

The Swiss authorities, acting as protecting Power, have issued 51 visas to foreigners in Egypt to come to the United Kingdom. No precise figures are available of the number of British subjects who have arrived from Egypt, but such records as it has been possible to make show that nearly 2,000 British refugees from Egypt are now in the United Kingdom.