§ Mr. Dempseyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the names and populations of those territories coming within his jurisdiction.
§ Mr. GreenwoodThere are thirty-two territories for which I am responsible excluding the British Antarctic Territory which has no permanent inhabitants. This list is as follows:
Territory Population (latest estimates) Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia 1,100,000 Antigua 60,000 Bahamas 134,000 Barbados 242,000 Basutoland 733,000 Bechuanaland Protectorate 548,000 Bermuda 48,000 British Guiana 630,000 British Honduras 103,000 British Indian Ocean Territory (1) 1,400 British Solomon Islands Protectorate 137,000 British Virgin Islands 8,500 Cayman Islands 8,853 Dominica 64,000 Falkland Islands and Dependencies 2,117 Fiji 449,000 Gibraltar 24,386 Gilbert and Ellice Islands 50,000 Grenada 93,000 Hong Kong 3,692,000 Mauritius 741,000 Montserrat 13,500 New Hebrides (2) 66,000 Pitcairn 86 St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla 59,000 St. Helena and Dependencies (3) 5,170 St. Lucia 94,000 St. Vincent 85,000 Seychelles 46,000 Swaziland 285,000 Tonga (4) 71,000 Turks and Caicos Islands 6,272 (1) This territory consists of the Chagos Archipelago (formerly part of Mauritius) and Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches Islands (formerly part of Seychelles).
(2) This is an Anglo-French Condominium. Authority is exercised jointly by British and French Resident Commissioners under the 1914 Protocol.
(3) The dependencies are Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.
(4) Britain is responsible for external affairs, defence, banking currency and exchange under a Treaty of Friendship.