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TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTER RF HONG KONG

24 MAY 1989

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CHAIRMAĦ :

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Can we turn to these particular cases that have received so much mention in our earlier exchanges?

Rowlands want to speak on this.

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MR. TED ROVLANDS:

Minister, quite a lot of the burden of the evidence

So I have

you have given to us is about numbers and size, got actually the complete opposite to suggest to you.

There are 30 war widows in Hong Kong. not make them a special particular category?

Why can

we

MR. TIN RENTON:

I do understand the concern that has been expressed

woman who is widowed and about the position of a particularly the widows of ex-servicemen and I have to say

Mr. Rowlands, because for the avoidance of doubt I must say to you, that if the wife of a British citizen is

to you,

widowed or the marriage is terminated before she is

settled in this country, she has to qualify for permission settled under the rules either in her own right or the dependant of a relative who has already settled here, but I think this is an area in which I would say to you we would welcome the Committee's views and we will give very careful thought to any recommendations which you

mke.