HC Deb 16 July 1980 vol 988 c563W
16. Mr. John Home Robertson

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make a statement on the Government's views concerning the status of Jerusalem.

Sir Ian Gilmour

Since the end of the Palestine mandate, successive British Governments have regarded the status of Jerusalem as a whole as undetermined and taken the view that the city's future should be agreed between all the parties concerned and cannot be determined unilaterally. We regard East Jerusalem as part of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 and therefore as subject to the provision of resolution 242 for Israel's withdrawal.