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Serial no:1215
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
For WRITTEN ANSWER on
18/12/87
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TEXT OF QUESTION :
SECRET
Party
La
PARRY, ROBERT (LIVERPOOL, RIVERSIDE)
To ask the Secretary of State/HMG:
if he will make a st on the results of recent opinion polls conducted in Hong Kong on the Sino-British Agreement to return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty.
to MEGGAR
(Minister)
for approval by
1000
NOON
18 DEC 87
2.PQS1.REPLY ($)
for answer by
MR. EGGAR
(Minister)
ANSWER
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A recent opinion poll in Hong Kong on attitudes to the Joint Declaration recorded that 28% of respondents considered it very good or quite good for the people of Hong Kong, while 45% considered it good in some
ways and not so good in others.
copy to
Private Secretary PS/LORD. GLENART HUR
(Minister)
Parliamentary
Clerk
authorised
(Head of Dept)
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