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Soviet Seamen

Volume 904: debated on Tuesday 27 January 1976

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what restrictions are applied to the movements of personnel coming ashore from Russian trawlers and other Soviet vessels putting into United Kingdom ports.

Soviet crews are treated in the same way as other foreign seamen. Unless barred on grounds of individual undesirability they are permitted ashore without restrictions on their movements while their ships are in port.