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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
25
for ORAL answer on. July 1973
WRITTEN
19
910
W
Hong Kong
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
40.
Noon Friday 20/7
To ask Mr James Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull, West): the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when it is his intention to make public the findings of the Blair-Kerr Commission upon corruption in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Anthony Royle,
The first report of
Sir Alistair Blair-Kerr's Commission dealing with the
circumstances under which Mr Godber was able to leave
Hong Kong will be published by the Governor of Hong Kong
on 26 July. The second part of the Commission's terms of
reference is to report on the effectiveness of the
Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
Work on this has begun.
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