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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on...

25 June 1975

HKIO]

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

4pm THURSDAY

26 JUNE

Mr Stanley Newens (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if action against the illögal drug traffic in Hong Kong is continuing to make progress; and if there is any evidence to indicate that supplies of drugs are being cut off.

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Satisfactory progress is being maintained.

During

the last eighteen months, almost £12 million worth of drugs

have been seized, 11 heroin refineries have been neutralised and 58 major arrests have been made. Despite this success, there is no real evidence that supplies of drugs to Hong Kong

have been cut off.

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