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Mr Wallace (WIAD WH424D)

Mr Rogan (WIAD WH424D)

Mr Culver (SED W105)

Mr Hunt (EAD K301)

Mr Thompson (SPD WH MZ 22) Mr Duggin (SAMD WH325)

Mr Hickson (FID WH226)

Mr Ward (UND K144)

Mr Hoare (HKGD WH312)

PQ: CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS OF DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

PA

1. Mr Ivor Stanbrook MP (Bromley, Orpington) has put down the following PQ for oral answer on 13 April. It will not be reached:

2.

'To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs, what is the policy of Her Majesty's Government regarding the constitutional progress of dependent territories of the United Kingdom.

I attach a proposed draft Answer and Background Notes. No supplementaries are required.

3. I should be grateful, in conjunction with your Legal Adviser, for any comments on the draft Answer, and amplification on the draft background notes, by close of play on Thursday, 31 March. Nil returns required please.

25 March 1983

G C Livesey

Hong Kong & General Department WH305 233.4475

cc: Mr Bickford (Legal Advisers WH217)

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The draft reply is a statement of poling & mixes legal question.

Para. 2 of the backgound note reeps comect in relation to Hang Kong. It is for other departments & their adverens to say whether it is coment in respect of other dependent territories

3.

Para 3 (i) (Hong Kong) should be amended

(a) to refer to the leave of New Territories' ( they

ceded to the UK)

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(h) the words in brackets should word "he officia & appointal members

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