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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

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MR.

TEMPLE-MORRIS:

The Prime Minister, at Question Time here in the

immigration-

House last Thursday, talked about looking for a much

greater flexibility in the operation of Our

nationality laws and also added as a rider to that, that

should existing legislation be insufficient,

we may have

I paraphrase

on to the

but what do

to come back to the House for extra powers,

it but colleagues will remember what she said,

In general terms and again I will come

Specifics and you may lead me on to the them

you think we should be looking at when We are

this flexibility, which can meani an awful lot but it can

also mean very little?

looking for

SIR DAVID WILSON:

I have sought for much more than just that

flexibility.

time,

When I appeared before the Committee last

I talked about sympathy for the views of AMBLCO,

which was very true then and I talked about flexibility.

In light of what has happened recently, I have put

the point to Ministers that it is more than just

flexibility that is required.

I have had the response which the Prime Minister

gave in the House of Commons and which she gave to me when

I saw ber last week, that she believed that it was

politically extremely difficult to do what I was asking.