Private Secretary
FLOAT
FROM: A R Paul
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 2 February 1990
CC:
PS/Mr Maude
Mr McLaren
LETTER FROM THE RT HON GERALD KAUFMAN MP
Mr Lidington
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Problem
1.
A letter from Mr Kaufman about the questions that he asked in the House following the announcement of the nationality package for
Hong Kong.
Recommendation
I recommend that the Secretary of State reply on the lines of
It has been cleared with the Home Office. the attached draft.
2.
Background
3. The Home Office are adamant that as the final criteria for qualification under the Scheme are not yet finalised, we cannot give
He should understand that there a substantive reply to Mr Kaufman.
will be adequate time and opportunity for debate on all these points when the Bill is presented to the House.
4.
pm.
The Secretary of State is seeing Mr Kaufman on 8 February at 6
There is likely to be a little more that the Secretary of State
can say on the subject on that occasion, on a personal and confidential basis, although it will not be possible for him to give
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