PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION FOR ORAL ANSWER ON TUESDAY 6 MAY 1986
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The Lord Molloy To ask Her Majesty's Government/what representations they have received from the Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations about the grant of British citizenship and the right of abode in Britain to British Dependent Territory citizens, and what replies they have given.
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The Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations asked the Government to grant British
citizenship rather than British Overseas citizenship to those British Dependent
Territories citizens of Hong Kong who are not ethnically Chinese and who would
otherwise be stateless in 1997. The Government considered very carefully the
Council's request, including all the arguments in its support put forward in your
Lordship's House and elsewhere. But as my rt. hon friend the Home Secretary
announced on 23 April, we have concluded that it would not be right to grant this
request. The arrangements we have made guarantee people's continued right to live in Hong Kong and will ensure that neither they, their children nor their
grandchildren need fear statelessness.
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