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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

6 May 1982

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

7.

NOON ON FRIDAY

7 MAY 82

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Mr Iain Mills (Meriden): To ask 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.

Mi Ciauley Onglow

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 3 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.

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