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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

HOUSE OF COMMONS: FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

HEAD OF

Please submit:

HKD

a draft answer and background

to Parliamentary Relations Unit before NOON 25/7/90

23/7/90

WHITE O.P. Date

FOR

26/7/90

PRIORITY

WRITTEN ANSWER ON

26/7/90

SERIAL NO:

3002

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TO PS/

THE EARL of CAITHNESS

(Minister)

for approval by

NOON

26 JUL 1990

PQs

Reply

Copy to:

Private Secretary PS/MR LENNOX - BOYD

(Minister)

Parliamentary Clerk

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QUESTION

MR CLIVE SOLEY (HAMMERSMITH] [LA]

To ask the Secretary of State:

how many people have been charged under the Summary Offences Ordinance in Hong Kong for each year in the last five years.

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31 JUL 1990

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FOR ANSWER BY

ме

LENNUX-Boyd

ANSWER

(Minister)

Because prosecution records in Hong Kong are not computerised, and since the Summary Offences Ordinance encompasses some 40 minor nuisance

offences, the information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.

25/7

Authorised

Rofance

(Head of Dept)