TNAG-1191-FCO40-1493-Implications-for-Hong-Kong-of-changes-in-the-British-nationa-1982 — Page 63

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

18 October 1982

for WRITTEN answer on........

HKGD

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your

Under-Secretary by

NOON

CRIDAY is OCTOBER

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Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the latest estimate of British citizens living in Hong Kong at the latest date.

Mr Malcolm Rétkind

It is estimated that, when the British Nationality Act 1981

comes into effect on 1 January 1983, there will be 19,000 British

citizens living in Hong Kong, not including members of the

British Forces and their families.

Apperand by M. Refrenil

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18/10

17/10.