COHAJM
Mr McLaren
PS/Lord Glenarthur
Private Secretary
CUNE IDENTIAL
HED 243/1
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From:
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
Date:
15 December 1988
CC: Mr Gillmore
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Thorne, UND
HONG KONG BUSINESSMEN/RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
1.
Home Office officials are today submitting to the Home Secretary a Private Secretary letter to No 10 Downing Street replying to the questions on Hong Kong businessmen raised in A B Mr Powell's letter of 8 December. I attach a copy of the draft as
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it was submitted: Home Office officials are confident that the
Home Secretary will be ready to accept with its general approach.
It was discussed with ourselves, and is in terms which cause no
difficulty.
2.
Once the Prime Minister has the Home Office letter, together with appropriate endorsement from ourselves, she will be in a position to consider in conjunction the two questions of attracting Hong Kong businessmen to the United Kingdom and resettling Vietnamese boat people. Mr Powell's letter of 5 December indicated
that she wished to reach decisions on the two issues at the same
time.
/3. Assuming