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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
31 January 1984
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MONDAY 30 JANUARY
Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent consideration has been given to the amendment of the Hong Kong constitution to provide for: (a) a government responsible to an elected legislature, and (b) an elected urban Council; and what representations have been made by the Government of the People's Republic of China on these issues.
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Both HMG and the Government of Hong Kong are
keeping Hong Kong's constitutional development
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under constant review. It is not HMG
SHMG s practice
to disclose confidential diplomatic exchanges
with foreign governments.
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