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Mr Murray

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PQ: HONG KONG: MR DENNIS CANAVAN MP

1. I submit a draft reply, background note and note for supplementaries

to the PQ put down by Mr Dennis Canavan MP (Labour

West Stirlingshire)

for oral answer on 16 January. I understand that Mr Ridley will prob-

ably reply in the absence abroad of Mr Blaker.

2.

Mr Canavan recently visited Hong Kong with two fellow Labour MPs

and he presumably intends to use the Question to ask supplementaries

about matters that came to his notice during that visit.

3. The Governor of Hong Kong is having talks in London this week, on

his way back to Hong Kong after a month spent in Scotland recuperating

from a successful hip operation in November. He will be having meetings

with the Secretaries of State for Defence and Trade, as well as with

Mr Blaker. It is unlikely that in his talks with Mr Blaker he will

spend much time on the purely internal matters likely to be raised by

Mr Canavan.

4.

The Hong Kong Government concur.

Din

R D Clift

9 January 1980

Hong Kong and General Department