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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

BRITISH POSSESSIONS, AND DEPENDENCIES

1. Mr John Home Robertson MP (Berwick and East Lothian) has raised the following PQ.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the British possessions and dependencies which are subject to any form of territorial claim by other nations'

2. The PQ is unlikely to be reached for oral reply. Supplementaries are not therefore required. A reply is required by Parliamentary Unit by noon on Wednesday

2 June 1982. They confirm that as far as they are aware Mr Robertson has no specific interest in dependent territories.

3. I list below our Dependent Territories and should welcome the comments of the relevant geographical departments

on individual territories. I shall then clear the reply with Legal Advisers:

Anguilla

Bermuda

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

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Written Answers

Director General of Fair Trading has the statutory duty of keepirg under review, and advising my right hon. and ble Friend from time to time on, the working of the Act. ie would be interested in details of any problems that have arisen in connection with section 75.

Trades Description Act 1968 (Airline Bookings)

Anguilla Bermuda

British Antartic Territory

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Written Answers

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700,000

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Montserrat

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7,500

Mr. McCrindle asked the Minister for Trade if he will introduce legislation amending section 14 of the Trades Description Act 1968 so that if confirmation of an airline booking has been received through a travel agent there is an absolute liability on the airline to provide space on the flight booked; and if he will make a statement.

Dr. Vaughan [pursuant to the reply, 17 June 1982, c. 314]: As made clear on 22 January in the debate on the Trade Descriptions (Amendment) Bill, we have no plans at present to amend section 14 of the 1968 Act.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS

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Falkland Islands

RECEIVED IN REGISTY NO.

Mr. Arthur Lewis, asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwean Affairs whether he has received the communication from the hon. Member for

JESKOTED Newham, North-West together, with a document "Falkland Islands Facte, Brief History of the Sovereignty Issue"; and whether he will publish a similar type world circulation.

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Mr. Onslow: My right hon. Friend has received the communication from the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Lewis), together with the document referred to, published by the Falkland Islands Office. We have already published two documents on the Falkland Islands, entitled "The Falkland Islands and Dependencies" and "The Falkland Islands-The Facts"; many thousands of copies of these have been distributed in several languages throughout the world. The two Government publications between them contain most of the historical facts included in the document issued by the Falkland Islands Office and we do not at present propose to publish another similar document.

Mr. Montgomery asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government is carrying out any negotiations on sovereignty of British dependencies other than the Falkland Islands.

Mr. Onslow: We are not at present carrying out negotiations on British sovereignty over any dependent territories.

Overseas Dependencies

Mr. Hicks asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list United Kingdom overseas dependencies and give their areas and populations; and whether any specific international or local arrangements apply in each particular case.

Mr. Onslow: The remaining dependent territories, their areas and approximate populations are as follows:

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British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands and Dependencies Gibraltar

Hong Kong

Pitcairn Group of Islands

St. Helena and Dependencies

Turks and Caicos Islands

* No indigenous population.

As to the second part of the question, if my hon. Friend can be more specific I shall be pleased to try to obtain the necessary information.

Argentine (Imprisoned Journalists)

Miss Fookes asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will ensure that before the repatriation of Argentine prisoners of war arrange- ments will be made with the Argentine Government to release British journalists currently in custody.

Mr. Onslow: We have already asked the Swiss embassy in Buenos Aires to express to the Argentine Government our expectations that, in the context of our willingness to begin repatriating prisoners as soon as possible, the three British correspondents who are being held by the Argentines will now be released.

EMPLOYMENT

Manpower Services Commission

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he is satisfied that the head office of the Manpower Services Commission at Sheffield is effectively run and the correct number of employees for the work involved are in post; and whether he will make

a statement.

Mr. Peter Morrison: I have nothing to add to my reply to a similar question from my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Mr. Major) on 16 June 1982. [Vol. 25, c. 273-74.]

Wages Councils

Mr. Montgomery asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether the Government plans to abolish any more wages councils.

Mr. Tebbit: The wages council system is kept under scrutiny and we are ready to abolish individual councils where the need for them no longer exists, but there are at present no plans to abolish particular councils.

Homeworking Advisory Committee

Miss Joan Lestor asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he intends to reconvene the homeworking advisory committee in order to review what further action may be needed to protect homeworkers.