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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Howard H W Young Esq Urban Councillor

Swire Travel Ltd

2nd Floor

Swire House

Central

HONG KONG

Dan Howard.

NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL

Many

thanks

23 January 1986

NIR

for your letters of 7

January,

addressed to Lady Young and one addressed to me.

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We were very interested to see the extract from your speech to the Urban Council. You will have seen reports of the debates on the nationality Order in Council which took place in the House of Commons and Lords on 16 and 20 January. I will not go over everything that was said in those debates, but you you

will have noticed that Ministers were well aware of the concerns which had been expressed by

people in Hong Kong many

on such

as matters endorsement in BN (0) passports regarding entry into

into the UK and the position of the ethnic

and minorities ex-servicemen. These concerns were closely reflected in speeches by MPs during the debates.

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The Government are now reconsidering the matters in the light of opinion expressed in Hong Kong and during the debates.

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