HC Deb 17 November 1965 vol 720 c86W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the names and populations of those territories coming within his jurisdiction.

Mr. Greenwood

There are thirty-two territories for which I am responsible excluding the British Antarctic Territory which has no permanent inhabitants. This list is as follows:

Territory Population (latest estimates)
Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia 1,100,000
Antigua 60,000
Bahamas 134,000
Barbados 242,000
Basutoland 733,000
Bechuanaland Protectorate 548,000
Bermuda 48,000
British Guiana 630,000
British Honduras 103,000
British Indian Ocean Territory (1) 1,400
British Solomon Islands Protectorate 137,000
British Virgin Islands 8,500
Cayman Islands 8,853
Dominica 64,000
Falkland Islands and Dependencies 2,117
Fiji 449,000
Gibraltar 24,386
Gilbert and Ellice Islands 50,000
Grenada 93,000
Hong Kong 3,692,000
Mauritius 741,000
Montserrat 13,500
New Hebrides (2) 66,000
Pitcairn 86
St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla 59,000
St. Helena and Dependencies (3) 5,170
St. Lucia 94,000
St. Vincent 85,000
Seychelles 46,000
Swaziland 285,000
Tonga (4) 71,000
Turks and Caicos Islands 6,272

(1) This territory consists of the Chagos Archipelago (formerly part of Mauritius) and Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches Islands (formerly part of Seychelles).

(2) This is an Anglo-French Condominium. Authority is exercised jointly by British and French Resident Commissioners under the 1914 Protocol.

(3) The dependencies are Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.

(4) Britain is responsible for external affairs, defence, banking currency and exchange under a Treaty of Friendship.