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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

21st June 1971

for ORAL answer on

Hong Konet

The draft

reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

48 10a Friday 18/6

*La/Co. Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he is aware that squatters' huts are again being occupied by the poorer section of the Hong Kong community because of recent rent rises in the private and public sectors; and what steps he is taking to prevent the deterioration, as a result, of the living standard of the poor.

M. A thong Royle

I have no evidence of any recent increase in domestic

squatting in Hong Kong.

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