§ 58. Mr. MacDermotasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish a table of the 42 dependent overseas territories to which Her Majesty's Government extended the application of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, showing the estimated population of each such territory, and the date on which independence was attained by those which are no longer dependent, or will be attained by 105W those for whom a date for independence has been agreed.
A. TERRITORIES TO WHICH THE APPLICATION OF THE EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION WAS EXTENDED BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT WHICH HAVE SINCE BECOME INDEPENDENT Territory Estimated Population Date of Independence Cyprus 578,000 16th August, 1960 Gold Coast (Ghana) 6,727,000 6th March, 1957 Jamaica 1,663,000 6th August, 1962 Kenya 8,676,000 12th December, 1963 Federation of Malaya 7,680,000 31st August, 1957 Federation of Nigeria, including North and South Cameroons. (These two territories were under United Kingdom Trusteeship and administered with Nigeria until Nigerian independence. A plebiscite was than held and North Cameroons opted to join Nigeria and South Cameroons to join the Cameroon Republic.) 40,000,000 1st October, 1960 (Federation) 1st June, 1961 (South Cameroons) 1st October, 1961 (North Cameroons) North Borneo 454,000 16th September, 1963 Sarawak 74:5,000 16th September, 1963 Sierra Leone 2,450,000 27th April, 1961 Singapore 1,446,000 16th September, 1963 Somaliland 650,000 26th June, 1960 Tanganyika 9,238,000 9th December, 1961 Trinidad and Tobago 829,000 31st August, 1962 Uganda 6,517,000 9th October, 1962 Zanzibar 312,000 10th December, 1963 106W
B. TERRITORIES TO WHICH THE APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION HAS BEEN EXTENDED AND FOR WHOSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE Territory Estimated Population Date of Independence (where agreed) State of Aden … … … … 220,000 The Bahamas … … … … 105,000 Barbados … … … … 232,000 Basutoland … … … … 800,000 Bechuanaland … … … … 350,000 Bermuda … … … … 43,000 British Guiana … … … … 591,000 British Honduras … … … … 91,000 British Solomon Islands … … … … 124,000 Channel Islands: Jersey … … … … 63,345 The Bailiwick of Guernsey … … … … 47,158 Falkland Islands … … … … 2,100 Fiji … … … … 394,000 Gambia … … … … 284,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands … … … … 46,000 Gibraltar … … … … 26 000 Leeward Islands: Montserrat … … … … 12,000 Antigua … … … … 45,000 St. Kitts … … … … 57,000 British Virgin Islands … … … … 7,900 Malta … … … … 329,000 Isle of Man … … … … 48,150 Mauritius … … … … 658,000 Northern Rhodesia … … … … 2,515,000 24th October, 1964 6th July, 1964 Nyasaland … … … … 2,921,000 St. Helens … … … … 5,000 Seychelles … … … … 42,000 Kingdom of Tonga … … … … 63,000 Windward Islands: Dominica … … … … 60,000 Grenada … … … … 89,000 St. Lucia … … … … 86,000 St. Vincent … … … … 80,000
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerFollowing is the reply: