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and what is their total asis.
ere is only one British bad; this is in Madrid. t of the school in the -76 is £276,000 and its
sked the Secretary of and Commonwealth staff are employed at 1 School, Madrid; how ree salaries; how many school; and what is the new buildings planned it of the school on an
here are 31 full-time and ers at the British Coun- id.
The salaries of 16 in the United Kingdom to United Kingdom in- d the teachers are out of om for 365 days. They 45 inish income tax. :d locally are subject to There are 750 pupils
Most of the new building onsideration is: building. $25,456.
cost of the present school year 1975-76 is £276,000 £305,000. If the school w building, the estimated £413,000 with annual ,000.
Brunei
sked the Secretary of State Commonwealth Affairs if a statement on the Min. Brunei on 4th January
My right hon. and noble linister of State visited h to 9th January 1976 to ons with the Sultan on the
of the defence review hdraw the British Gurkha to begin a review of the it with Brunei as amended nally requested by Her ernment on 27th November vill be resumed in London it a date to be arranged.
Passports
21 JANUARY 1976
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the estimated cost of the proposed changeover to EEC passport.
Mr. Rowlands: The proposal is not for an EEC passport, but for a national passport issued in a uniform style by each State. It is not expected to involve any additional cost.
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the stock level of unissued United Kingdom passports. Mr. Rowlands: 810,000.
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the estimated annual rate of issue of United Kingdom passports, both renewals and new issues.
Mr. Rowlands: 1,442,000 replacement and first issue passports are currently issued annually.
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if it is proposed to issue common applications forms within the EEC on the introduction of the EEC passport.
Mr. Rowlands: As the passports will continue to be national ones each State will use its own application forms.
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the estimated number of United Kingdom passports currently issued.
Mr. Rowlands : Of the passports granted in the last 10 years, 11 million are estimated still to be valid.
Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will takes steps to eliminate the need for persons only of certain occupational and social classes to coun- tersign passport application forms.
Mr. Rowlands: The problem of estab lishing a passport applicant's identity was reviewed last year. The conclusion remains that there was no practical alternative to the present countersignatory system.
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Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which country the EEC pass- port for United Kingdom citizens will be printed.
Mr. Rowlands: Each country will print its own passports which will be national passports in the uniform EEC style.
Dependent Territories
Mr. David Price asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will list the remaining British colonies with their respective populations; and what plans, if any, he has for any change in their constitutional relations with Her Majesty's Government and with Parliament.
-are:
Mr. Rowlands: The remaining Depen- dent Territories-populations in brackets Belize (120,000); Bermuda (53,000); British Antarctic Territory (no permanent population); British Indian Ocean Territory (no permanent popula- tion); British Virgin Islands (10,500); Cayman Islands
Falkland (13,000); Islands and Dependencies (1,857); Gib- raltar (29,927); Gilbert Islands (54,000); Hong Kong (4,345,200); Montserrat (12,302); New Hebrides (Anglo-French Condominium) (92,000); Pitcairn Islands Group (61); St. Helena and Dependencies (5,000); Seychelles (56,000); Solomon Islands (184,000); Turks and Caicos Is- iands (5,680) and Tuvalu (6,000).
It has been the policy of successive British Governments since the end of the Second World War to promote self- government and independence in the Dependent Territories, in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants and the pro- visions of the United Nations Charter. Proposals for constitutional advance are under discussion in a number of these territories.
Falkland Islands
Mr. Wall asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the landing of Argentinian military engineers in the Falkland Islands.
Mr. Rowlands: The Argentine en- gineers arrived at Port Stanley on 16th January to extend the Argentine tem- porary airstrip. The extension is being
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