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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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4pm TODAY WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 81.
Mr Michael Shersby (Hillingdon, Uxbridge): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, if he will publish in the Official Report in tabular form the number of inhabitants, according to the latest available information, of the following British dependent territories: the Colonies of Anguilla, Belize, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands,
St Helena and Dependencies, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands. M-Nicholas Ridley
The latest estimated population figures of the United Kingdom
dependent territories are as follows:
ANGUILLA
BELIZE
BERMUDA
BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
6,500
144,000
57,300
No indigenous population
BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY
No indigenous population
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
CAYMAN ISLANDS
FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES
GIBRALTAR
11,000
16,680
1,800
31,760
HONG KONG
5.147.900 (FZO.1987
MONTSERRAT
12,500
PITCAIRN ISLAND
61
HENDERSON, DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS
Uninhabited
ST HELENA
5,200
ASCENSION ISLAND
1,150
TRISTAN DA CUNHA
320
SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF
AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA
1,200
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
7,500
5,364,871