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Resolved,
Hong Kong
HANSARD
18 DECEMBER 1974
That this House authorises the Secretary of te to pay or undertake to pay by way of ancial assistance under section 8 of the ndustry Act 1972 in respect of a guarantee guarantees to be given to the bankers of British Leyland Motor Corporation Limited
any of its subsidiaries covering borrowing lities made available by the bankers to ose companies, insofar as the amount paid undertaken to be paid under the guarantee guarantees is in excess of £5 million but
not exceed £50 million.
Ordered.
WEALTH TAX LTH
That Sir John Hall be discharged from the ct Committee on Wealth Tax and that Peter Rees be added to the Committee.—
Walter Harrison.]
STANDING COMMITTEE ON STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS Motion made,
That Standing Order No. 73A (Standing Com- tee on Statutory Instruments) be amended as Mlows:-
Line 41, after the word hours' insert the (or, in the case of an instrument or exclusively to instrument relating thern Ireland, two and a half hours) '.-Mr.
Harrison.]
Rev. Ian Paisley (Antrim, North): On point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. it in order for us to discuss this uption?
Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Oscar Murton): No, it is not exempted business.
will not be in order to debate it.
Mr.
Mr.J. Enoch Powell (Down, South): urther to that point of order, Deputy Speaker. As it was difficult to car what you said, I wonder whether ou would tell the House whether we
on the motion dealing with Statutory nstruments or the motion dealing with Public Accounts.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: We are now on motion dealing with Statutory Instru- ents. The question has not yet been roposed. Does the right hon. Gentleman Ash to speak?
Mr. Powell: I await your proposing the motion in order to speak to it.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Is the right hon. entleman desiring to object to the order?
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If he is. the question cannot be debated
now.
Mr. Powell: Object.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Ordered,
Richard
That Mr. Guy Barnett, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Edward du Cann, Mr. Cant, Mr. A. P. Costain, Mr. David Crouch, Mr. Denzil Davies, Dr. John Gilbert, Mr. Peter Hordern, Mr. James Lamond, Mr. John Mac- Gregor, Mr. John Moore, Mr. Maurice Orbach and Mr. David Price be members of the Corn- mittee of Public Accounts.
Ordered,
That the members of the Committee of Public Accounts nominated this day shall con- tinue to be members of the Committee for the remainder of this Parliament.
Ordered,
That this be a Standing Order of the House. -[Mr. Walter Harrison.]
ADJOURNMENT
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.-[Mr. Dormand.]
12.41 a.m.
HONG KONG
Sir Paul Bryan (Howden): I shall be visiting Hong Kong in January. I am particularly glad to have this oppor- tunity to hear the right hon. Gentleman's views on various topical subjects before I go.
As the right hon. Gentleman's noble Friend, the Under-Secretary of State, is also due to visit the colony shortly, this debate may also provide an opportunity for his colleague in this House to express the Government's atti- tude to Hong Kong's problems in advance of his arrival.
From time to time Hong Kong comes under a wave of criticism. Such criticism is almost always based on failure to re- cognise that all economic thinking there is related to one basic reality-its depen- dence on foreign trade.
Hong Kong is almost wholly depen- dent on imported food, it produces no in- dustrial raw materials, and its domestic market is not big enough to absorb more than a small proportion of its industrial Food is imported from production.
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