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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
HOUSE OF COMMONS: FOR ORAL ANSWER
HEAD OF HKD
Please submit:
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a draft answer supplementary notes and background to Parliamentary Relations Unit before NOON
21/05/92
FOR ORAL ANSWER ON
03/06/92
03/06/92
SERIAL NO:
98
ALICE MAHON [HALIFAX] [LA]
QUESTION NO: 3
(Minister)
for approval by
QUESTION
To ask the Secretary of State:
if he will make a statement on the future role of the new Governor of Hong Kong.
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to keep with PQ file
FOR ANSWER BY
SECRETARY OF STATE
(Minister)
ANSWER
NOON
27 MAY 1992
Reply
PQ s
Sandang Stato
Copy to:
Private Secretary
PS/
MR. GOODLAD
(Minister)
Parliamentary Clerk
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The whole House will want to join me in wishing Mr Patten well as he prepares for this most demanding job. His role and that of the Government will be to administer
Hong Kong justly and efficiently until the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, and to do
everything possible to ensure that
Hong Kong's way of life and economis
success are preserved beyond that.
lay secure foundations for preserving Hong Kong's way of life and economic success
date, as provided on
for in the Joint
Declaration 25)
dor 3115
beyond that
HKD 90/1
QB
Authorised
(Head of Dept)