HC Deb 16 December 1946 vol 431 cc308-9W
22. Mr. Peter Freeman

asked the Minister of Works the total number of face and stock bricks, roofing tiles, hollow clay blocks and floor quadrels produced in the last full year before the war; and the corresponding quantities now being produced per annum.

Mr. Tomlinson

The information is as follows:

Article 82 of the United Nations Charter to territories in respect to which draft trusteeship agreements have been submitted to the Trusteeship Committee of the Assembly;

(2) in which cases the British delegates to the General Assembly of U.N.O. have proposed that the administering authority for trust territories shall be U.N.O. itself.

Mr. Mayhew

His Majesty's Government see no necessity to apply the provisions of Article 82 to any of the United Kingdom mandated territories in Africa, though provision is made in the terms of Trusteeship now approved by the United Nations' General Assembly, for the subsequent designation of areas as strategic areas if this should later be considered

necessary. His Majesty's Government have not proposed that the administering authority for trust territories shall be the United Nations itself, since we believe that the interests of the inhabitants are best preserved by maintaining continuity of administration.