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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
23 February 1982
for WRITTEN answer on.
HKGD.
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
NOON ON
7.
MONDAY
22 FEBRUARY 82
Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, under what circumstances the secretariat confidential circular 106/82 concerning the employment of homosexuals in the Hong Kong Civil Service, dated 5 January 1982, was released to the Hong Kong press; whether measures have been taken to discover who was responsible for the release; and if he will make a statement.
In Humphrey Atkins
The confidential circular was issued for the information
Move fore
of Heads of Departments only and was not released to the
press.
Enquiries into the unauthorised disclosure of the
circular are now in progress.
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As amended.
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