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PS/Mr Onslow PS/Lord Belstead Mr Fearn (SAMD) Mr Clift (HKGD)
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FALKLAND ISLANDS (BRITISH CITIZENSHIP) (NO 2) BILL
LORD BRUCE OF DONNINGTON
1. The attached draft brief was prepared for use by FCO
Ministers in a possible discussion in OD (FAF) on 6
September. The Secretary of State has requested however
that there should first be a Ministerial discussion to clear
lines within the FCO before approaching OD (FAF). (Mr
Holmes' minute of 20 August to PS/Mr Onslow
attached brief is accordingly submitted as, in the first
instance, background to that Ministerial discussion.
2.
:). The
The draft has been cleared with SAmD, HKGD, WIAD, SPD,
SED, MVD, the Falklands Unit and ECD(I).
3.
Mr Whitelaw is expected to enquire about FCO views on
his return from leave at the end of August.
4.
Home Office officials have already sent us for comment
in due course a draft Second Reading speech opposing the
on this
Bill. We shall not comment /until we know our own Ministers' views on the handling of this essentially Parliamentary
problem.