§ Mr. Dormandasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress being made by Her Majesty's Government in preparation for World Population Year, 1974.
§ Mr. KershawThe central feature of World Population Year will be the World Population Conference to be held in New York in August. Her Majesty's Government are playing a prominent part in the preparation for that conference in the United Nations Population Commission and elsewhere and intend to participate fully in the conference itself. We are in close touch with the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population activities who is responsible for the preparations for the year. We are considering what detailed arrangements might be made in the United Kingdom such as, for example, the issue of special publications.