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The MacLennan Commission (Defensive)

11. Sub judice. Not expected to come up.

Standing Committee on Pressure Groups (SCOPG) (Defensive)

12. No sinister purpose. Committee's job to advise Hong Kong

Government on relations with a number of local lobbies.

infiltration by SCOPG. Advisers not operators.

Democratic Reform

No

13. White Paper on District Administration well received.

First local government elections to District Boards next year.

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