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N P Dickerson
Parliamentary Relations Unit
29 March 1989
Mr McLaren (with encl) Mr Paul, HKD (with encl) Miss Marsden, HKD
Private Secretary
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: SECRETARY OF STATE'S EVIDENCE SESSION 22 MARCH 1989 (HONG KONG)
226) 1. The Clerk to the Foreign Affairs Committee has now
forwarded proof copies of the Evidence taken on 22 March to give the witnesses an opportunity to propose corrections to the record. I should be grateful if these could be returned to me no later than midday on Monday 3 April.
In examining the Evidence, alterations should be restricted to:
2.
(i) the correction of inaccuracies in the printing or
reporting of the Evidence, or
(ii)
the correction of matters of fact which do not materially alter the general sense of any answer.
Minor alterations to the style or grammar of any answer should not be made, neither should any public use be made of the transcript.
3. No question should be altered. Should any explanation or additional information be necessary, this should be either submitted as a foot note to the Evidence at the appropriate point, or as a supplementary Memorandum.
4. I should be grateful if Hong Kong Department would confirm the accuracy of the Memorandum which is reproduced at the head of the Oral Evidence.
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Nigel Dickerson.
NP Dickerson
Parliamentary Relations Unit
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