TNAG-2195-FCO40-3132-Hong-Kong-nationality-package-1990 — Page 87

9.

This is a scheme for key workers, not for a wealthy and

influential elite. It makes provisions for teachers, doctors,

nurses, engineers, computer programmers, accountants, business

managers, civil servants,

civil servants, policemen and the like, and the

reactions so far in Hong Kong lend no credence to the claim that

it is thought there as elitist or divisive. Rather, the scheme

is looked upon as one which will contribute to the stability and

prosperity of the Territory and therefore benefit the community

as a whole.

Mr Speaker, there are two other groups of people I ought to

mention who are not covered by the Bill but for whom I believe

some provision must be made. I am referring to the widows and

widowers of British citizens who were resident in Hong Kong and

I am prepared to offer an assurance that they will be allowed to

come here if they are still resident in Hong Kong and haven't the

citizenship of another country and haven't remarried.

They

would, of course, have been able to come here anyhow under the

In accadance with the recommendations of the Select Immigration Rules during the lifetimes of their spouses.

same assurance will also extend to

the widows

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widows of former

servicemen who served in defence of Hong Kong during the Second

World War under the Government of Hong Kong irrespective of the

Thought

husband's nationality. The Select Committee that there were 30

of them.

Commat