CODE 18-77
[LB2ACS]
Mr Bacon, PRU
Reference............................
698
669
YOUR MINUTE OF 1 MAY ΤΟ MR BARRINGTON: ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARLIAMENT
1.
BRIEFING
Paragraph 4 of your minute, last sentence, suggested the Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council as a possible subject
a pre-emptive letter
for
factsheet for distribution to MPs by the FCO.
2.
or
We doubt whether this Order will
will generate public or Parliamentary interest on anything like the scale of the other subjects you mention. Interest in Hong Kong itself has subsided considerably since the publication last month of the Government's response with the requests associated
to
three the
LegCo
little
Order; even when Hong Kong opinion was most heated on the issue,
comparatively no public
Parliamentary
there
was
and almost
-
interest
in
it; and it is in any case an issue on which the Home
office take the lead.
in
the
The Order is to be debated next week in both
If
it is light of what
then said
we though interest may build up, as
could, in consultation with the Home Office, quickly put
3.
Houses. looks
together
speeches.
a
using
material
from
Ministers'
letter, We do not think action is needed at this
stage.
7 May 1986
Boating Layan
A M Layden
Hong Kong Department
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