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Mr White
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HONG KONG PASSPORTS: MEMORANDUM TO THE PRIME MINISTER
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We should
1. The attached draft has been agreed with Home Office officials who are putting it to the Home Secretary. wait for Mr Whitelaw's agreement and take his views into account before the memorandum goes to the Prime Minister.
Background
2.
The background is given in Mr Walters' letter of 5 October from the Home Office to Mr Coles at No 10, in Mr. Bone's letter of 11 October to Mr Coles, and in Mr Coles' of 21 October to Mr Walters which was copied to Mr Bone.
3. Much of this ground was covered during the debate on the Nationality Bill in October 1981. Mr Pym might wish an FCO Minister to speak to Lord Geddes, who was at that time the most active proponent of describing BDTCs as British in their passports, in order to ensure as far as possible that the subject is not reopened in the House of Lords.
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Christopher Howells
8 November 1982
C J Howells
Nationality & Treaty Dept
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