§ Mr. Laurance Reedasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether British mineral interests in the archipelago of Spitsbergen extend to Bear Island.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe status of Bear Island was regulated by the Treaty Regulating the Status of Spitsbergen, to which I referred in my reply to my hon. Friend's Question of 27th June, and is the same as the rest of the archipelago.—[Vol. 839, c.311–12.]
§ Mr. Laurance Reedasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether British rights to mineral resources in the archipelago of Spitsbergen extend to the Continental Shelf.
§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe Treaty Regulating the Status of Spitsbergen of 1920 does not contain any express provisions concerning the Continental Shelf.