TNAG-0901-FCO40-1111-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-British-nationality-1979 — Page 69

Registry

No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret,

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence]

DRAFT

To:-

With HKK340/

DSR 11

36

CONFIDENTIAL

Type 1 +

From

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

NATIONALITY BILL

Problem

1. To reply to a letter from the Private Secretary to the

Home Secretary of 5 July seeking the Secretary of State's

views on a paper which Mr Whitelaw wishes to circulate to

the Home Affairs Committee on 17 or 24 July.

The paper

includes a number of proposals which we cannot endorse

in their present form. We therefore need to persuade the

Home Secretary to delay the circulation of his paper to

allow time for the outstanding differences to be resolved.

The Secretary of State's support will be necessary if the

Home Office are to be moved on the main in dispute,

Issue

the proposal to create a new British Overseas Citizenship.

Recommendation

2. I recommend that the Private Secretary should reply

to Mr Butler on the lines of the attached draft.

CONFIDENTIAL

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