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Mr Youde

PS/Mr Goronwy-Roberts

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.

18 MAR 1974

HKK 3/548/3.

SPONSORED VISITS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO HONG KONG

4.

Mr Goronwy-Roberts may wish to know the present

arrangements for visits by MPs to Hong Kong.

2.

The Hong Kong Government have for some time invited and

normally paid for approx. 8 MPs a year in four parties of two) to visit

Hong Kong as guests of the Hong Kong Government. The selection

of MPs to be invited has been in the hands of the Chairman of

the Hong Kong Parliamentary Group, in cooperation with the Hong Kong

Association and the Hong Kong Commissioner in London.

3.

Invitations had already been issued, before the elections,

to Mr James Johnson, Mr B T Ford and Mr K Marks to go to Hong Kong

over Easter. All of these would be repeat visits. I understand

that the invitations have been re-affirmed and accepted since the

elections.

The

A list had been prepared for subsequent visits in 1974,

but the Hong Kong Commissioner is reviewing this in the light of the

results of the elections and the fact that the Chairman of the Hong

Kong Parliamentary Group, Sir John Tilney, has now left Parliament.

Dese

A C Stuart

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.

18 March 1974

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Sir D Watson

Parliamentary Unit

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