HC Deb 25 November 1953 vol 521 c39W
70. Mr. T. Reid

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what constitutional guarantees for the future have been requested by the Prime Minister of the Gold Coast.

Mr. Lyttelton

The Gold Coast Government have asked that Her Majesty's Government should declare their readiness to introduce an Act of Independence for the Gold Coast into Parliament as soon as the necessary constitutional and administraive arrangements for independence are made.