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not contain classified information provided that the official giving evidence has indicated when classified information is being touched

upon.

1.

The Clerk to the Committee will shortly be writing to PRU setting out the Committee's requirements for written memoranda in advance of the enquiry and possibly also for the taking of oral evidence. Most of the information required by the Committee will probably have to be provided by HKD, in consultation with the Hong Kong Government. Several detailed points to

raise with the

Clerk are set out in para 3 of Hong Kong telno 223.

Rosalind Marda

R MARSDEN

Hong Kong Department

26 January 1989

CC:

Mr Footman, HKD Miss Bailey, PRU