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WEDNESDAY 11 JULY 1990
Members present:
Mr David Howell, in the Chair
Mr Dennis Canavan
Mr Michael Jopling
Mr Ivan Lawrence
Mr Jim Lester
Mr Ted Rowlands
Mr Peter Shore
Mr Bowen Wells
HON. FRANCIS MAUDE, a Member of the House, Minister of State, Foreign
J.T.
and Commonwealth Office, and MR R MCLAREN
MCLAREN
CMG, Deputy Under
Secretary of State responsible for Far East, Hong Kong and SE
Asia, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, examined.
Chairman
1.
Minister, could I begin by welcoming you and your colleague,
Mr McLaren, back to the Committee this afternoon and welcoming the fact
that, like the Committee, you have decided in this fuggy atmosphere to shed
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-
your coat entirely the right thing to do and I encourage anyone else
who wishes to do so to follow suit. The purpose of this session, as I
think you know, is for the Committee to review the implementation of
British policy on Hong Kong and to do so particularly in the light of the
Second Reply from the Government, which we received on 23 May, to the
Of course,
Committee's Report on Hong Kong, published over a year ago.
Government first produced an Interim Response in December, for which we
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