TNAG-0597-FCO40-744-Future-of-Dependent-Territories-territorial-studies-1977 — Page 123

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on.. 23 June 1977

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

Noon, Friday

24 June 1974

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Mr Bruce Grecott (Lichfield and Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the estimated annual cost of administering the remaining dependent territories of the Commonwealth.

Mar Evan Luard.

Individual British Dependent Territories meet the bulk of the

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mont costs of their administration. Some costs do fall to Hie and these were estimated at about £3.3 millions annually in 1976.

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