§ Mr. William Priceasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people in his Department are engaged in Press and public relations; and what was the number on 20th June, 1970.
UNITED KINGDOM TRADE WITH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES AND WEST INDIES ASSOCIATED STATES 1970 £'000 Dependent Territories Population Imports Exports Bahamas … … 168,000 2,746 11,055 Bermuda … … 51,000 15,972 11,093 British Antarctic Territory … … None permanent 13 0 British Honduras … … 120,000 2,352 3,597 British Solomon Islands Protectorate … … 161,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands … … 55,000 431* 1,307* New Hebrides … … 78,000 * Includes Tonga Pitcairn … … 80 Brunei … … 130,000 49 2,874 Falkland Islands and Dependencies … … 2,100 604 451 Gibraltar … … 28,000 680 5,725 Hong Kong … … 3,950,800 128,385 99,543 St. Helena and Dependencies … … 4,700 53 768 Seychelles … … 50,000 British Indian Ocean Territory … … None permanent 51 1,302 Turks and Caicos Islands … … 5,700 179 562 Cayman Islands … … 10,650 West Indian Associated States … … 510,000 11,202 16,073 British Virgin Islands … … 10,500 Montserrat … … 12,300 For statistical purposes, some of the smaller territories are taken together. The independent Commonwealth country, Tonga, is in fact bracketed with dependent island territories in the Pacific.
Whilst Brunei continues to be included among the countries and territories to which the arrangements will apply, since the signing in November, 1971, of an Amendment Agreement, to the 1959 Agreement, Brunei is now a sovereign State in treaty relationship with the United Kingdom.
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§ Mr. Anthony RoyleThe total number of staff in the News Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 1st July, 1970, and 1st December, 1971, was 24 in each case.