§ Mr. Alexander W. Lyonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are his latest estimates of the number of (a) non-patrial citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies with no other citizenship and (b) British subjects without any citizenship resident in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malaysia, Malawi, Rhodesia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cyprus, Malta, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.
§ Mr. LuardComprehensive information is not available for all the countries listed in the Question. Estimates, derived from information provided by overseas diplomatic posts are given in the table,140W which shows non-patrial United Kingdom nationals in those countries for which we have this information. United Kingdom nationals embrace citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, British subjects without citizenship and British Protected Persons, who are not differentiated in our information. The possible entitlement of any of these persons to the citizenship of another country depends on the operation of the laws of other countries in individual cases.
Kenya 18,000 Uganda 88 Tanzania 10,000 Zambia 5,000 Malaysia 110,000 Malawi 6,800 Rhodesia Not available Botswana 36 Swaziland 103 Lesotho 11 South Africa Not available Ghana 650 Nigeria Not available Sierra Leone 233 Cyprus 2,849 Malta 24 Sri Lanka 400,000* India 25,000 Pakistan 1,086 Bangladesh Not available Singapore 30,000 Australia Not available Hong Kong 2,000,000 * The Governments of Sri Lanka and India have agreed to confer citizenship of one country or the other on these persons.