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The reason for offering British passports to 50,000 key people in Hong Kong and their depandants is not because we want to attract
them to come and live in the UK although as a matter of fact this
country would benefit enormously if they did so - but because we
want to give them the assurance that they could come and live here
if the worst came to the worst.
It is a fact that many of those professional and skilled people
who have emigrated to Canada, the United States and Australia have
done so simply in order to obtain an insurance policy. Our scheme
is designed to ensure that instead of needing to emigrate to obtain
right of abode abroad, talented and enterprising people cna stay in
Hong Kong and continue to make their contribution to its success and
prosperity.