§ 36. Mr. Goodhartasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he intends to hold any further test of public opinion in the Bahamas on the question of independence.
§ Lord BalnielNo. As the House is aware from my right hon. Friend's answer to a Question on 21st December and from the recent White Paper (Command 5196), it has already been agreed at the conference held in London in December between representatives of Her Majesty's Government and of the Government and Opposition in the Bahamas that, subject to the agreement of the United Kingdom Parliament, the Bahamas should become independent on 10th July, 1973.—[Vol. 848, c.468–70.]