TNAG-0723-FCO40-921-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 24

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for ORAL answer on22 November 1978

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

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15 NOVEMBER 1978.

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Miss Joan Lestor (Eton and Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further consideration he has given to the issue of the death penalty in British colonies, dependent territories and associated states.

Mr Frau Luard

The question of whether dependent territories. should be allowed to retain capital punishment raises complex issues. It remains the Government's intention to seek Parliament's views in due

course.

The Associated States are fully responsible for their own internal affairs and the question of intervention by the

British Government does not arise.

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625 D.330614 4M 6/75 Cr.P.C. Gp839/3

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