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TRAISCRIPT I SELECT COMMITTER OF BONG KOIG

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24 NAY 1989

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MR PETER TEMPLE-MORRIS:

I just wanted to go back just a shade to the numbers

game again because we are asking the Minister now general questions, as he realises, before we go on to the detailed

subjects and categories.

On the numbers it seems clear from the Minister's

answers, particularly when dealing with the 400 Falklanders, that if there had been 3.25 million

Falklanders there would have been a completely different attitude and perhaps there would have been no British-

Falkland Islands Nationality Act.

He has talked about the debt that we owe to the 400

Falkland Islanders and others when they were invaded and

I think he might accept when we liberated the Islands.

that there was a debt owing to many Hong Kong people for

the very considerable services which those people have

rendered from the extremes.

I do not want to go into this because Ir Rowlands is

but the extreme that going to ask the question later on, would be, say, 30 war widows on the one hand, the other extreme would be people who have made an awful lot of money and created an awful lot of prosperity, much of

which has come to this country.