PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for [ORAL] answer ❖th April 1970.

Hong Kong JohE.

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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9pm [day 3/4

To ask

*La/Co Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan):

the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what further consultations, and with what result, he has had with the

Government of Hong Kong on the matter of employing women on night-shift work.

Mr. Evan Luard.

DRAFT ANSWER

I explained in the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member

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for Farnworth on 2 March that Her Majesty's Government were satisfied

that some night work under strictly controlled conditions could be accepted. I have just been informed by the Governor that

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