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JA B Stewart Esq OBE
Mr Mitchell NOTJ
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Dear John.
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9th May, 1977
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We should be grateful for any advice which you can give us regarding the likely timetable which may develop in the UK 'for considering the Green Paper on Nationality and seeking comments from dependencies etc. We should also like to know whether there is likely to be any debate in the House and what the reactionsof the main parties are likely to be on the Green Paper itself. Any information you can give us on these points would help us in considering our own programme locally. Could you also say whether, at some later stage, a White Paper is likely or whether the next step will be draft legislation?
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Martin Rowlands, the Director of Immigration, will be coming to the UK at the end of May for a holiday and you already know that I shall be home in mid-August. We shall take the opportunity of calling to discuss developments but any advance information you can give us on the programme would be helpful.
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Incidentally, we were a bit perplexed by what, if any, inference we ought to draw from the proposal in your telegram No 305 of 27 April to omit the words 'any legislation will not be introduced for two or three years' and substitute 'early legislation'. Our original wording was taken verbatim from paragraph 5(a) of Guidance 66. We note that the Home Secretary used the words 'a bill in the near future' in the report in Verbatim Series 103/77. Does this mean we may find that the process of consideration etc. is perhaps likely to be reduced in time to any significant degree.
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I am sending a copy of this letter to Teddy Kidd,
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