COHAAL
CONFIDENTIAL
Mr McLaren
PS/Lord Glenarthur
Private Secretary
FROM:
CO Hum
87
DATE:
CC:
Hong Kong Department
2 February 1988
PS/Mr Eggar
Mr Gillmore
Mr Meyer, News Department
P RU
Mr Teasdale
HONG KONG: WHITE PAPER ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Problem
1.
What action should we take in Parliament and with MPs over the publication of the Hong Kong White Paper on representative government on 10 February?
HKB 011/1
Recommendation
2.
I recommend:
(i) that publication should be announced on 10 February in
response to an inspired written Parliamentary Question, tabled in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The reply would state that copies of the White Paper had been
I submit a draft placed in the libraries of both Houses.
question and answer;
(ii)
that Lord Glenarthur might speak in advance to
Sir Peter Blaker to seek his advice on the utility of an informal meeting with office holders of the British/Hong Kong
Parliamentary group.
PRU concur. The recommendations also reflect Mrs Bottomley's
advice.
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