Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 March 2009.
Does the Minister not understand that Ministers' handling of this matter has been shameful, as Meg Munn, the respected former Foreign Office Minister, has eloquently explained? The people of St. Helena are British citizens, so do we not have a duty to them to resolve this issue? Is not it time that he and his colleagues got a grip?