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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
18 October 1982
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Mr Arthur Lewis (Newham North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he will give the actual or estimated number of people now resident in Hong Kong who are able to claim admission and residence in the United Kingdom; and to what extent this number will be altered by the coming into effect of the British Nationalitv Act in 1983.
Mr Malcolm Refleind
Some 19,000 patrials in Hong Kong will become British citizens
on 1 January 1983. There is an unknown, but probably small,
number of other persons with right of admission or readmission
under the Immigration Act or Rules, Immigration status is
unchanged by the British Nationality Act, 1981.
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