asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will implement the recommendations contained in the Duncan Report.

The recommendations in the Duncan Report have been studied carefully and where appropriate are being implemented. Some of the recommendations are still under examination in the context of the current review of Governmental activities. Many of the recommendations, however, were in the nature of guidelines rather than specific suggestions for action. Some of the general concepts, such as the "outer area" and "area of concentration", have already been generally recognised as having been much too sharply drawn.