PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
21st June 1971
for ORAL answer on
Hong Konet
The draft
reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
48 10a Friday 18/6
*La/Co. Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he is aware that squatters' huts are again being occupied by the poorer section of the Hong Kong community because of recent rent rises in the private and public sectors; and what steps he is taking to prevent the deterioration, as a result, of the living standard of the poor.
M. A thong Royle
I have no evidence of any recent increase in domestic
squatting in Hong Kong.
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