HC Deb 20 November 1990 vol 181 cc81-2W
Mr. Conway

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has for reviewing the constitution of the Cayman Islands; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has agreed to a request from the legislative assembly in the Cayman Islands for a constitutional review. He has appointed Sir Frederick Smith KA QC, chief justice in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Mr. Walter Wallace CVO CBE DSC, constitutional adviser on the dependent territories to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as commissioners. The commission will sit for eight weeks, beginning in January 1991.

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