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ADJOURNMENT DEBATE ON HONG KONG : 25 MAY 1984

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I am grateful to my Hon Friend the Member for Bromsgrove

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for raising this important subject again today.

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former member of the Hong Kong Civil Service, he speaks from

deep personal experience in describing the anxieties that

Hong Kong people feel as they consider their future.

particular, he is perhaps uniquely well placed in this House

to reflect the concerns of members of the Hong Kong public

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I will endeavour to provide answers to the specific points

that the Hon Member has raised. However, I must stress at

the outset that there are clear limits to how much I can say

about points which touch on the negotiations with China.

must remain confidential.

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There is also obviously very little

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I can add to what my Hon and Learned Friend had to say in

the debate last week.

The debate last week rightly focussed on the longer-term

future of Hong Kong, after 1997. I need not go over this

ground again. But much of what has been said today relates

to the period before then.

Let me therefore assure the House,

if any assurance be needed, that we recognise that the

Administration of Hong Kong until 1997 remains firmly a UK

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