HC Deb 21 October 1991 vol 196 cc347-8W
Miss Lestor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from which dependent territories he has had responses regarding the ratification of the United Nations convention on the rights of the child; what those responses have been; and if he will make a statement on when the United Kingdom intends to ratify the convention.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Responses have been received from 10 of the 11 inhabited dependent territories in which they have set out their initial positions on ratification of the United Nations convention on the rights of the child. Consultations are proceeding with a view to ratification of the convention as soon as possible.