To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much import duty has been charged on goods entering Ascension Island in each year since 1976. (75457)

Import duty on goods entering Ascension Island has only been levied since the introduction of a system of taxation in April 2002. Since that time total duties collected in each year are as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much export duty has been charged on goods leaving Ascension Island in each year since 1976. (75458)

None. Ascension Island levies no export duty.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2006, Official Report, column 185W, on Ascension Island, if she will place a copy of the Workmen’s Protection (Ascension) Ordinance in the Library. (75463)

A copy of the Workmen’s Protection (Ascension) Ordinance has been placed in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many sites on Ascension Island“no longer necessary for the purpose of the operation of the Long Range Proving Ground”, as set out in Article IV (Provision of Sites), point 1, of the Bahamas Agreement 1956, the UK Government have ceased to provide for that purpose since 1976. (75464)

Two. The United States’ use of the “National Aeronautics Space Administration” site ceased in the early 1990s. Part of that site was then re-released and renamed in 1997. It was finally relinquished in March 2001.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will list the acquisitions that have taken place on Ascension Island since 1976 of private property to allow rights of way to the United States Administration as permitted in Article III (Rights of Way) of the Bahamas Agreement 1956. (75466)

There have been no acquisitions on Ascension Island since 1976 of property to allow rights of way to the United States Administration as permitted in Article III (Rights of Way) of the Bahamas Agreement 1956.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many motor vehicles belonging to the United States Administration not used for purposes connected directly with the establishment, maintenance or use of the Long Range Proving Ground have paid taxes or fees relating to registration or licensing for use on Ascension Island since 1976 under Article XIII (Motor Vehicle Taxes) of the Bahamas Agreement 1956. (75467)

None.