§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what policy, in relation to uninhabitable islands, will be adopted by Her Majesty's Government when the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea resumes deliberations in May 1977.
§ Dr. OwenHer Majesty's Government will continue to maintain, as at previous sessions of the Conference, that there should be no distinction between islands in their entitlement to generate an economic zone and continental shelf.