Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which countries the Overseas Territories Directorate in his Department is responsible for.

Sir Alan Duncan, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office: The Overseas Territories Directorate is responsible for the following British Overseas Territories:

Anguilla

Bermuda

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Montserrat

Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno

St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands (SGSSI)

Turks and Caicos Islands

Virgin Islands (commonly known as British Virgin Islands)

Hansard

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