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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer cn..1G...January 1978
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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
Noor Houday
9 Jaxuary 1918
Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many death sentences imposed by the courts in Hong Kong have been commuted; (a) on the authority of the Governor, and (b) on the advice of Her Majesty's Government during the period 1970 to 1977.
(a)
78
(b)
1
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