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Written Answers

Angelm

190

1000 1979

£000

1980

Population

Financial Aid

Technical Co-operation

Financial Aid

Technical Co-operation

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

Montserrat

1,800 29.800

*442 2,788

473

$587

427

425

4.472

476

5,150,000

-

185.

376

12,100

376

152

1011

211

Pitcairn

34

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.

most

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 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 Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean

Territory

Anguilla

Bermuda

(a) By Ministers

Not yet decided

(b) By Officials

Not yet decided

Not yet decided

Note yet decided

Not yet decided

Not yet decided

Anguilla

(a) Ry Ministers

Minister for Overseas

Development May 1982

(b) By Officials

FCO Official

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Not yet decided

Not yet decided

FCO Official June 1982

Not yet decided

Falkland Islands

March 1982

Gibraltar

Not yet decided

Bermuda

Prime Minister October 1981

FCO Official, February 1982

Director, British Antarctic Survey February 1982

Hong Kong

Prime Minister Septeinber 1982

Montserrat

Not yet decided

Not yet decided

BOTB Official June 1982

ODA Official July 1982

Pitcairn

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean

Territory

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Minister of State.

Falkland Islands

FCO December 1980

Gibraltar

Hùng Long

Montserrat

Pitcairn

St. Helena and

Dependencies

Minister of Stone. (Armed Forces) March 1982

Minister for Overseas Development May 1982

Turks and Caicos

Islands

Minister for Overseas Development April 1982

FCO Official April 1982

ODA Official

March 1982.

FCC Oficial

June 1981

MOD Officials April 1982

FCO Offcial

April 1982

FCO Official

March 1982

FCO Oicial February 1982 (Ascension)

FCO Officials

February 1982

The next estimated visits by Ministers and officials are as follows:

St. Helena and

Dependencies

Turks and Caicos

Islands

Not vet decided

FCO/ODA Officials

June 1982

ODA Officials June 1982

Mr. Jain 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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