Mr Hoare
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4. 1985
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1.
At Mr Luce's meeting of Parliamentarians today two points were
raised on nationality which require follow-up. Mr Luce commented
afterwards that he expects them to be raised in the Committee stage
and that we shall need a good defensive line on them.
2.
The first is the question of the transmissibility of BOC
status. One member present, whose name I did not get, observed that
BOC status was not transmissible. I f we were to give people who
would otherwise be
be stateless BOC status we should only be putting
the problem off for one generation. What would happen to their
children? Mr Luce undertook to consider the point.
I think you
will need to discuss this with the Home Office urgently.
3. The second point was raised by Lady Vickers who said that she
had received a lot of material from Indian pressure groups
in Hong
Kong. She said they had informed her that there were 16,000 Indians
living in Hong Kong. She asked about their future. Mr Luce took
her over HMG's intentions on statelessness. We also told her that
we believed that the figure of 16,000 must include those who were
not British Dependent Territories citizens, but who were
presumably Indian citizens. She asked in this case whether the
Indian Government would let them in, and whether we had had any
discussions with the Indian Government. Mr Luce said that we had
not, since we had no indication that any of them wished to go to
India. We had better try to get some
clarification on the figure of
16,000 and work out a defensive line.
Przální
30 January 1985
A C Galsworthy
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