asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many passports or other travel documents have been issued so far this year to Rhodesian Africans by Her Majesty's High Commission in Botswana; and how many were issued in each of the five previous years.

No records are kept of the race of persons to whom passports are issued.Passports are issued to Rhodesian citizens who have no other citizenship and who are ordinarily resident outside Rhodesia. They are also issued to some categories of persons normally resident in Rhodesia who have a claim only to Rhodesian citizenship. These categories, as described in a statement made by the then Attorney-General on 17th June