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26 July 1990

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Mr Clive Soley (Hammersmith):

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people have been charged in Hong Kong with collecting money in public without a permit for each year in the last five years.

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MR LENNOX-BOYD

Although no detailed analysis has been made, the Hong

Kong Government consider it likely that only a very small

number of prosecutions have been undertaken in recent years.