asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what authority and upon what grounds was Mr. Assam, representative in Britain of the Indonesian seamen's section of the I.T.F., deported to Holland on 12th November, 1945.

From such information as I have been able to obtain I infer that my hon. Friend is referring to a Dutch seaman named Assan, who arrived about 18 months ago and embarked as a passenger for Rotterdam on 12th November. No deportation order has been made against him, and no steps were taken by my Department to enforce his departure.