ST HELENA & DEPENDENCIES
ANNEX 7
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Size : St Helena
Ascension
47 square miles 34 square miles
Tristan da Cunha
38 square miles
Population
6,500
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Present constitutional position: no Ministers;
Executive
Council and mainly elected Legislative Council with English local government-type committee system
Budget expenditure (1978): £2,200,000
$5. UK aid
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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
independence
Prospects: general political apathy; no visible prospects of escape from heavy dependence on budgetary aid; therefore seems impracticable.
Ascension: a service and stageing post; no indigenous population
Tristan da Cunha only 300 prosperous crawfishermen; ships a year ex Capetown; independence unrealistic.
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