HC Deb 27 June 1956 vol 555 c49W
72. Mr. Harold Davies

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies his policy for the future of the smaller nonviable Dependencies, such as islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

It is the aim of Her Majesty's Government to promote in every one of such territories the greatest possible economic and social advance and the fullest measure of self-government within the Commonwealth which is practicable in the particular local circumstances.