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Mr Bacon, PRU

Reference............................

698

669

YOUR MINUTE OF 1 MAY ΤΟ MR BARRINGTON: ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARLIAMENT

1.

BRIEFING

Paragraph 4 of your minute, last sentence, suggested the Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council as a possible subject

a pre-emptive letter

for

factsheet for distribution to MPs by the FCO.

2.

or

We doubt whether this Order will

will generate public or Parliamentary interest on anything like the scale of the other subjects you mention. Interest in Hong Kong itself has subsided considerably since the publication last month of the Government's response with the requests associated

to

three the

LegCo

little

Order; even when Hong Kong opinion was most heated on the issue,

comparatively no public

Parliamentary

there

was

and almost

-

interest

in

it; and it is in any case an issue on which the Home

office take the lead.

in

the

The Order is to be debated next week in both

If

it is light of what

then said

we though interest may build up, as

could, in consultation with the Home Office, quickly put

3.

Houses. looks

together

speeches.

a

using

material

from

Ministers'

letter, We do not think action is needed at this

stage.

7 May 1986

Boating Layan

A M Layden

Hong Kong Department

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY'

8 MAY 1986

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REGISTRY Action Taken