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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:
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(2)
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(4)
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 immigration
laws.
What, in 1973, was the average weekly industrial wage in Hong Kong: and what was the average number of hours worked for that wage.
What are the present rates of income tax and
corporation tax in Hong Kong: and when these taxes were last increased.
What was the Hong Kong Government's income in 1973 from income tax and corporation tax, respectively.
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(5) What are the size of the electorate for the Hong Kong
Urban Council and the estimated size of the adult population in the areas covered by the Council. (6) How much of the Hong Kong Budget surplus has been
transferred to London in each of the past ten years. (7) When free primary education was introduced in Hong
Kong: and what plans the Hong Kong Government have lo introduce compulsory secondary education for children between the age of 12 and 15 years.
(8) What proportions of Hong Kong's Gross National Product
are currently devoted to public sector housing, education, social welfare, railway system development, airport development, water storage, and tourist development, respectively.
(9) In the light of the forecast by the Hong Kong
Commissioner for Narcotics that within the next few years the Colony will succeed in bringing its hard drugs problem under control, if he will indicate any new measures introduced to achieve this objective. (10) What was the estimated value of Hong Kong's GDP in 1973:
and what this yielded in per capita income.
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