ST HELENA & DEPENDENCIES
ANNEX 7
1.
Size : St Helena
47 square miles
Ascension Tristan da Cunha
34 square miles 38 square miles
2.
Population
6,500
Executive
3. Present constitutional position: no Ministers;
Council and mainly elected Legislative Council with English local government-type committee system
Budget expenditure (1978): £2,200,000
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5.
UK aid
6.
budgetary
£1,400,000 (plus shipping subsidy)
total aid per capita £600 (including project)
Main activities and sources of income:
Remittances from Ascension Fishing (small)
Subsistence agriculture
Works programme
Prospects: general political apathy;
7.
no visible prospects
of escape from heavy dependence on budgetary aid; therefore seems impracticable.
independence
Ascension : a service and stageing post; no indigenous population
Tristan da Cunha only 300 prosperous crawfishermen; ships a year ex Capetown;
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independence unrealistic.