189
Written Answers
10 MAY 1982
Written Answers
190
£000 1979
£000
1980
Population
Financial Aid
Technical Co-operation
Financial Aid
Technical Co-operation
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
Hong Kong
1,800 29,800
*442
473
+587
427
2,788
425
4,472
476
5,150,000
185
376
Montserrat
12,100
376
152
1,011
211
Pitcairn
54
47
St. Helena and
dependencies
6,500
Turks and Caicos Islands
7,500
3,553 848
382
167
3,279 849
516
412
*includes £5,000 loan.
†includes £30,000 loan.
The aid figures for 1981 are not yet available. Mr. Iain Mills asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a list of the most recent visits by (a) Ministers and (b) officials normally based in the United Kingdom to each dependency; and when is the expected next visit by Ministers or United Kingdom based officials to each dependency.
Mr. Onslow: Most recent visits since the end of 1980 are as follows:
British Indian Ocean
Territory
(a) By Ministers
(b) By Officials
Anguilla
Bermuda
Not yet decided
Not yet decided
Not yet decided
Note yet decided
British Antarctic Territory
Not yet decided
Not yet decided
Anguilla
(a) By Ministers
Minister for Overseas
Development May 1982
(b) By Officials
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Not yet decided
Not yet decided
FCO Official June 1982
Not yet decided
FCO Official .
Falkland Islands
March 1982
Gibraltar
Not yet decided
Bermuda
Prime Minister October 1981
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean
Territory
British Virgin Islands
•
Cayman Islands
FCO Official February 1982
Director, British Antarctic Survey February 1982
Hong Kong
Montserrat
Not yet decided
Prime Minister September 1982
Not yet decided
BOTB Official
June 1982
ODA Official July 1982
1.
Pitcairn
12
Minister of State,
Falkland Islands
FCO December 1980
Gibraltar
Hong Kong
Montserrat
Pitcairn
St. Helena and
Dependencies
Turks and Caicos
Islands
Minister of State, (Armed Forces) March 1982
Minister for Overseas Development May 1982
Minister for Overseas
Development
April 1982.
FCO Official April 1982
ODA Official March 1982
FCO Official
June 1981
MOD Officials April 1982
FCO Official
April 1982
FCO Official
March 1982
FCO Official February 1982 (Ascension)
FCO Officials
February 1982
are
The next estimated visits by Ministers and officials S.
as follows:
98
01 JUNE
St. Helena and
Dependencies
Turks and Caicos
Islands
Not yet decided
FCO/ODA Officials June 1982
ODA Officials June 1982
Mr. Iain Mills asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many of his Department's staff responsible for each of the United Kingdom's dependencies are normally resident (a) in the United Kingdom, (b) in the dependency and (c) elsewhere.
Mr. Onslow: There are 43 Diplomatic Service staff in London dealing with dependent territory matters. There are 14 Diplomatic Service officers serving in dependent territories administrations, as follows:
Anguilla (1), Bermuda (2), Gibraltar (2), Hong Kong (4), St. Helena and dependencies (4), Turks and Caicos (1). There were also three officers in the Falkland Islands. In addition, the British High Commissioner in New Zealand, resident in Wellington, is concurrently non-resident governor of the Pitcairn Group of Islands.
Shanghai
Mr. Arnold asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has plans to re- open a consulate in Shanghai.
Mr. Rifkind: We shall be discussing this matter with the Chinese in the coming months.
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