§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the population of dependent and associated territories of the British Commonwealth at the latest available date.
§ Mr. EnnalsStatistics at present available give the population of British Dependent Territories and Associated States as 5,215,190, made up as follows:
Dependent Territories: Belize 127,000 Bermuda 55,000 British Antratic Territory * British Indian Ocean Territory * British Solomon Islands Protectorate 176,000 British Virgin Islands 10,500 Cayman Islands 11,000 Falkland Islands and Dependencies 2,000 Gibraltar 29,500 Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony 59,000 Hong Kong 4,200,000 Montserrat 12,600 New Hebrides (Anglo-French Condominium) 86.000 Pitcairn 90 St. Helena and Dependencies (Ascension Island & Tristan da Cunha) 5,500 Seychelles 47,000 Turks & Caicos Islands 6,000 Associated States: Antigua 62,000 Dominica 73,000 St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 57,000 St. Lucia 105,000 St. Vincent 91,000 (Additionally, Rhodesia, which is constitutionally a dependent territory in a state of rebellion against the Crown. has a population of 6,100,000.)
* No permanent population.