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Mr Male
Parliamentary Unit
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS: HONG KONG
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Mr James Sillars MP (Labour, South Ayrshire) has put down ten Questions for written answer on 5 November, to ask the Secretary of State:
(1) How many people in Hong Kong hold British passports:
and how many of these would be permitted unimpeded access to the United Kingdom under current immigracion.
laws.
(2) What, in 1973, was the average weekly industria.
wage in Hong Kong: and what was the average nume hours worked for that wage.
(3) What are the present rates of income tax and.
corporation tax in Hong Kong:
were last increased.
(4)
and when these
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What was the Hong Kong Government's income in 197) i income tax and corporation tax, respectively.
(5) What are the size of the electorate for the no hom
Urban Council and the estimated size of the oculo population in the areas covered by the council. (6) How much of the Hong Kong Budget surplus has o
transferred to London in each of the past ven (7) When free primary education was introduced
Kong: and what plans the Hong Kong Govern introduce compulsory secondary education for between the age of 12 and 15 years.
(8) What proportions of liong Kong's Gross Nationa
are currently devoted to public sector housing, education, social welfare, railway system anvilumin airport development, water storage, ano development, respectively.
to
(9) In the light of the forecast by the Hong so.
Commissioner for Aarcotics that within the
years the Colony will succeed in bringing drugs problem under control, if he will indicate new measures introduced to achieve this oppect. v..
(10) What was the estimated value of Hong Kon ̧'s
and what this yielded in per capita income.
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