Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the false information given by government officials to the children of Chinese men compulsorily repatriated in 1946 that their fathers had been killed at sea or abandoned them, and the consequences for the children and their mothers; and whether the Home Secretary will agree to meet some of the surviving children.

No information is held by the Home Office. Surviving files were transferred to the National Archives in 1980; these are open to the public in class HO 213. The Noble Lord is invited to forward to the Home Office any additional information for officials to consider.