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REFERENCES

NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES

1. HONG KONG'S GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

that

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I would refer to the reply that my honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Scotland Exchange Division, Mr Parry, on 2 March that Her Majesty's Government have welcomed the Hong Kong Government's plans for further progress in labour, social and

allied fields and that he was satisfied that the Hong Kong Govern-

ment were making good progress with their social and other problems.7

EDUCATION

2. FREE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION?

There

There is already free primary school education in Hong Kong. is a fees remission scheme for secondary education which is designed to ensure that no child is denied secondary education on financial grounds. In March 1976, over 60% of all pupils in the public sedor received some degree of fees remission, including 14% who received full remission. If pressed: The Hong Kong Government have not announced plans to provide free secondary education for an

13. FREE