TNAG-0439-FCO40-504-Ministerial-Visits-Committee-monthly-returns-from-Hong-Kong--1974 — Page 128

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for [WRITTEN] answer on 21 January 197

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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

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Mr Ray Carter (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when was the last occasion that a British Minister made an official visit to Hong Kong to discuss the territory's internal affairs.

Prusicessor

Mr Peter Blake, my prediction that contai [by preaccessor] in Royle visited Hong Kong from

10-15 November 1972. Since then a number of other

Ministers have paid short visits to the colony for

different purposes. I myself visited Hong Kong from

27 September-1 October 1973 in my former capacity as

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence for

my st. how. Frend the Army. As the House is aware the Prime Minister

had intended to visit Hong Kong as well as China this

month; but, as he informed the House on 18 December,

he had to

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the present situation in Britain rude it necessary to

postpone the visit.

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