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TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTEE RF HONG KONG

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MR. DEFNIS CANAVAN:

Are they making efforts to advertise in the press

and television in Hong Kong?

MR. TIM RENTON:

I am afraid that is not a question that I am

competent to answer, but you could obviously ask the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that.

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MR. DENNIS CANAVAN:

In

People who fail to apply in time for BBO status and those of subsequent generations who would otherwise be stateless will acquire British overseas citizenship. what ways is BHO a more privileged form of citizenship than BOC or is the difference just purely cosmetic?

MR. TIX RENTON;

What it

I think the differences are insignificant. actually recognises is that the BOC is there to deal with a situation of someone who is potentially otherwise

stateless.

There are something like two million BOCS already scattered throughout the world, including in, for example, countries like Argentina, and it is to make quite certain that someone is in possession of a passport that so that they is a UK-government-issued British passport,

are not in the position of being

stateless,