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HONG KONG AGREEMENT:

WIGLEY

1.

NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL: PQ BY DAFYDD

THE FOLLOWING PQ HAS BEEN PUT DOWN BY MR DAFYDD WIGLEY

FOR WRITTEN ANSWER ON 20 JANUARY.

'TO ASK THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF FOREIGN AND

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, WHAT IS HIS ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF

PEOPLE WHO WILL BECOME STATELESS DURING THE TRANSFER OF

SOVEREIGNTY OF HONG KONG.'

2.

WE WILL BE GIVING THE FOLLOWING REPLY:

'NONE. THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY UNDERTAKEN THAT NO

FORMER HONG KONG BDTCS WILL BECOME STATELESS AS A RESULT OF THE

SINO-BRITISH AGREEMENT ON HONG KONG.'

HOWE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

COPIES TO :

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT,

LEGAL ADVISERS

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING MR WILSON

MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD

MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE

MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON

MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFIC

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE

MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS

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