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Mr Murray
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RALNEJ I RASST NO. 51
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- 4 MAY 1978
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Action Taken
Parliamentary Unit
HONG KONG: PQ: MR HAL MILLER MP
1. I submit a draft Answer, Background Note and Notes for Supplementaries to the Oral Question put down by Mr Hal Miller MP (Conservative Bromsgrove and Redditch) for answer on 26 April.
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2. Mr Miller, who served in the Hong Kong Government Service from 1955 to 1968, takes a close interest in Hong Kong affairs. He tabled four questions on Hong Kong last year, on education, the New Territories Council and British policy towards the territory. He is normally sympathetic towards the Hong Kong Government. present question, about the recent compulsory retirements from the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, may reflect the anxiety of members of the public service in Hong Kong over the way in which these retirements were effected, by means of the little used Colonial Regulation 55. Under this Regulation, public servants may be dismissed without the reasons for their dismissal being
revealed.
3. The draft reply is based on information supplied by the Hong Kong Government.
18 April 1978
Cc:
PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts
OPA
Mr Cortazzi
CONFIDENTI AL
W.E. Quantill
W E Quantrill
Hong Kong & General Dept