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21 November 1984

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Mr Gerald Malone (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the further development of representative government in Hong Kong.

No 185W

;

SIR GEOFFREY HOWE

The Hong Kong Government has today published a White Paper on the further development of representative Government in the

territory. Copies of this paper have been placed in the Library

of the House.

There

After the publication on 18 July of the Green Paper on

representative Government, two months were allowed for public

comment, which was received from a wide variety of sources.

was general support for the aims of the Green Paper and the

gradual and progressive nature of the proposals made in it.

Paper, which takes account of these views, sets out the Hong Kong

Government's intentions for the 1985 elections to the

Legislative Council.

The main points in it are:

The White

(a) Twelve members (rather than six as proposed in the

Green Paper) will be elected to the Legislative Council

by an electoral college in 1985. Ten will be elected by

groups of District Board Members, organised on a regional

basis, and one each by the Urban Council and the proposed

New Regional Council

•