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Action Taken

British Nationality (HK) Bill

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Our fax LOB 483 dated 5.4.90 gave you a summary of the immediate media coverage of and the political response towards the British Nationality (HK) Bill.

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There have been two recent developments which you may

wish to note:

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(a) John Taylor, the Ulster Unionist MP for Strangford said that the party had decided to revise its previously "sympathetic" attitude to the bill because that gesture had met with a "total lack of interest" from the Government ("Financial Times" of 9.4.90); and

(b)

to take a

Michael Heseltine is planning distinctive position over the Government's Hong Kong Bill. "The Independent" (9.4.90) reported that while supporting the Bill in principle, Heseltine is expected to say that the distribution of passports should be more evenly spaced, with Parliament having to approve formally each batch of passports granted.

The relevant cuttings are in MIFF.

Herne Hill

(K C Kwong)

Deputy Commissioner