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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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4pm TODAY WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 81.

Mr Michael Shersby (Hillingdon, Uxbridge): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, if he will publish in the Official Report in tabular form the number of inhabitants, according to the latest available information, of the following British dependent territories: the Colonies of Anguilla, Belize, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands,

St Helena and Dependencies, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands. M-Nicholas Ridley

The latest estimated population figures of the United Kingdom

dependent territories are as follows:

ANGUILLA

BELIZE

BERMUDA

BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

6,500

144,000

57,300

No indigenous population

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY

No indigenous population

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

CAYMAN ISLANDS

FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES

GIBRALTAR

11,000

16,680

1,800

31,760

HONG KONG

5.147.900 (FZO.1987

MONTSERRAT

12,500

PITCAIRN ISLAND

61

HENDERSON, DUCIE AND OENO ISLANDS

Uninhabited

ST HELENA

5,200

ASCENSION ISLAND

1,150

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

320

SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF

AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA

1,200

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

7,500

5,364,871