HC Deb 12 May 1969 vol 783 cc950-1
13. Sir D. Renton

asked the Minister of Overseas Development whether he will make a statement on the work so far of the Population Bureau of his Department.

Mr. Oram

I would refer the right hon. and learned Member to the reply which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Rowley Regis and Tipton (Mr. Archer) on 1st April.—[Vol. 781, c. 59.]

Sir D. Renton

Will the hon. Gentleman make available the experience gained by this Population Bureau to his colleagues in the Government who have a more difficult problem than exists in most of the overseas territories with which his Department is concerned?

Mr. Oram

The Bureau has only recently been set up. One of its purposes is to disseminate information on the question of population control, and certainly my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Government will have access to it.