Commonwealth States (Hansard, 27 October 1989)

HC Deb 27 October 1989 vol 158 c641W 641W

§ Mr. Dunn
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many member states of the Commonwealth are multi-party democracies.

§ Mr. Waldegrave
The Commonwealth consists of 49 independent sovereign states, of which 33 are multi-party democracies and six whose parliaments consist of elected independent members.