WRITTEN ANSWER
Lord BROCKWAY asked Her Majesty's Government:
what association they have with the administration of Pitcairn Island, the colonial possession established by the mutineers of HMS Bounty in
1790, and whether they will restore British
passports to the isolated inhabitants and save the colony from extinction. [15 February]
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Lord TREFGARNE:
Her Majesty's Government administers
Pitcairn, whose community is largely self-sufficient, through the Governor and his Commissioner.
Pitcairners will continue to hold British passports
in which they will be described as provided for, in the British Nationality Act 1981, as British Dependent Territories
Citizens.
Tiefg-
Feb. 2321 1982.