§ Mr. Sorensenasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will hold a special inquiry into the social and housing conditions prevailing in St. Helena, and also into other British colonial possessions apart from the West Indies?
Mr. M. MacDonaldThe new Governor of St. Helena has been asked to give special and early consideration to the question of social and housing conditions in the Colony. I am awaiting his report. As regards other Dependencies, the question of social amelioration is one which has to be considered separately in relation to each territory or region; and I do not therefore contemplate a general inquiry such as the hon. Member appears to suggest.