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CONFIDENTIAL

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Attached

Parliamentary Unit

montary

PQS: HONG KONG: MS VERTUCCI

1. I submit draft replies to 4 PQs put down by

- Mr Robert Parry MP, 3 from Mr Denis Canavan MP and

one from Mr Bob McTaggart MP, all for priority written

answer on 23 February. The drafts have been prepared

in consultation with the Hong Kong Government.

2. The information requested in Mr Parry's second question

and Mr Canavan's first and third questions is not readily

available and could only be obtained and then incompletely

by searching through thousands of individual files. This

exercise would certainly cost more than £50 per question.

I therefore recommend that the information should not be

sought on the grounds of disproportionate cost.

3. The draft answer to Mr McTaggart's question has been

cleared with the departmental Legal Adviser.

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R D Clift

22 February 1982

Hong Kong and General Department

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Mr Donald

News Department

Mr Burrows, Legal Advisers

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