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HONG KONG: PQs: MR ROBERT PARRY MP
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1. I submit draft replies and a background note to the eleven PQS put down by Mr Robert Parry MP (Labour Liverpool, Scotland Exchange) for Priority Written Answer by the Secretary of State. Eight are for answer on 28 June, the other three for answer on 30 June; all concern the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee School in
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2. Mr Parry takes a critical interest in Hong Kong affairs and has asked nineteen previous questions this year about the territory.
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The story of the closure of the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School on 14 May and the events leading up to it is very complicated and many of the acts are disputed. I hope that the Committee of Inquiry which has been set up by the Governor
In the meantime, will succeed in clarifying the issues involved.
it is difficult to reach detailed conclusions about the rights and wrongs of the affair, though I continue to believe that the Hong Kong Government's main concern was the interests of the pupils at the school and that the Acting Director of Education acted responsibly. The attached draft replies, based on material provided by the Hong Kong Government, give straight-forward factual answers as far as possible.
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According to reports in the Hong Kong press two of the teachers involved in the dispute left for London on 26 June to lobby MPs, including Mr Parry. The Governor takes the view that they are unreasonably attempting to short circuit a carefully constituted inquiry and has recommended that they should not be seen by Ministers or officials (Hong Kong telegram no. 784). submit separately if they ask to do so.
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