House of Lords
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
Secretary of State
for WRITTEN answer on
HK&G
Department
Please submit your draft reply (normal maximum 50 words) through an Under-Secretary and the Private Secretary to M. Blaken
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Procedure Volume 5 for guidance. Text of question as follows:
The Lord Brockway To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds the Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union representing disadvantaged employees in voluntary agencies (providing approximately 90 per cent. of welfare in Hong Kong) are denied recognition by the Government, although the agencies are heavily subsidised from public funds. [24th October.]
The Union was formally registered by the Hong Kong Government
on the 6th of February 1980 as a trade union under the Trade
Unions Ordinance. As such it enjoys all the rights and
obligations under the Ordinance.
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