§ Mr. Richard Pageasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many representations of concern were made to his Department by spokesmen of the Opposition parties over the takeover of the Libyan People's Bureau from the time of the takeover in February until the shooting of WPC Fletcher.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British citizens are currently resident in Libya.
§ Mr. LuceThe latest estimate I have for the number of British citizens in Libya is that there were about 8,250 in that country on 27 March 1984.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British citizens have left Libya since the start of the incident at the Libyan People's Bureau on 17 April.
§ Mr. LuceNo statistics are available, but we are not aware of any significant reduction in numbers.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has received any further expressions of support for the actions of the British Government during the crisis at the Libyan People's Bureau from Governments besides those received from the Governments of the United States of America, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Norway.
§ Mr. LuceMany Governments have expressed in various ways their sympathetic understanding for our handling of the crisis at the former Libyan People's Bureau. The Governments of Canada, France, Switzerland and the Irish Republic have made helpful public statements in addition to those named in the question.