§ 109. Mr. Stonehouseasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to make a statement on the motion passed by the Uganda Legislative Council accepting common roll elections in 1961.
§ Mr. ProfumoIn a statement which my right hon. Friend made in Uganda on 10th October, he said that, after studying the recent debates on elections in the Uganda Legislative Council, he and the Governor were agreed that it would be in the best interests of the political future of Uganda that direct elections for the African representative members of the Legislative Council should be introduced next year in all areas that want them, with the exception of Karamoja; and that, for the future, Her Majesty's Government were fully convinced that the electoral machinery to be set up for the 1961 elections should be based on the introduction of a common roll at that time. I am having copies of my right hon. Friend's statement placed in the Library.