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TRANSCRIPT D: RONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE KRETING
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FOREIGN SECRETARY;
I think one has got to recognise the difficulty of trying to
identify any different resting point.
Ve are, by
Let me make another point of distinction.
definition, from the legislative history you have just described, a country that has sought to exclude emigrants for settlement for
reasons that Parliament has accepted under governments of all
parties. It is in great contrast to countries like the United
States or Canada or Australia that have sought to attract
emigrants for settlement and one simply cannot make the comparison
between them.
It is extremely difficult to identify any legislative change
that could identify & resting point different from where we start. As you know, there are arrangements whereby different people from Hong Kong and elsewhere are able to enter Britain and to euter in
certain circumstances for settlement people wishing to study.
businessmen or self employed people who are willing to invest
substantial sums of money and so on. I think you have got the
documents before you and there are certain very limited areas
discretion exists in the Home Secretary but again,
available in very narrowly defined circumstances and I have obviously thought about this a great deal and know that it is a matter of very active consideration, but it is not easy to
identify any resting point
where a
that is