Mr
Cooke
CRE 1
CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
Department of Trade
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HMG'S POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION ON HONG KONG:
LIAMEN
1. You should have seen copies of FCO telegram no 84 to Hong Kong of February (and Hong Kong telegram no 112 of 9 February in reply) about Mr John Watkinson's PQ for Oral Answer by the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary on 18 February.
2. I enclose a draft reply and draft Notes for Supplementaries. The latter, as anticipated in FCO telegram no 84 to Hong Kong, are mainly texts submitted for the PQ to the Prime Minister by Mr Jim Marshall MP on 5 February. I have suggested some additional notes but so far as those on textiles are concerned, nos 10-14 inclusive, the wording is unchanged. I should be grateful if you and the othér recipients of this letter, as appropriate, would confirm by 10.30 hourse tomorrow, Wednesday, 11 February, that the draft Notes for Supplementaries on textiles are still valid. Could Jim Ashwood please do the same as regards the draft note on the Mass Transit Project (no 24) and Andrew Ward in the MOD on the Defence Costs Agreement and the formation of a militia in Hong Kong (nos 21 and 22).
3.
I understand that the Department of Trade supplied the Prime Minister, in connection with Mr Marshall's PQ, with Notes for Supple- mentaries on the Slater-Walker - Haw Par affair. We do not appear
to have seen these and I should be grateful if you could arrange for me to be sent copies, just in case we need to submit Notes for Supplementaries to our Secretary of State on this topic.
CC:
Mr J Ashwood, CRE 4,
Dept of Trade
Miss L Lowne,
Dept of Trade ludurling.
Mr A Ward, DS 6, MOD
Mr Stern, EID(E)
D F MILTON
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean
Department
Silent cc:
Mr Martin, FED
E.B. & Co. 56-3197 9/75
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