TNAG-2363-FCO40-3434-Visits-by-MPs-from-the-UK-to-Hong-Kong-1992 — Page 26

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VISIT TO HONG KONG BY SIR J WHEELER MP:

28 DECEMBER 4 JANUARY

HKD 826/14

2 3 DEL 1991

1.

Sir John Wheeler MP rang the Private Office on

6 December about this visit, which he will make at the invitation of the Hong Kong Government office. At the Private Secretary's request I rang him back.

2. Sir John's main point was that this was not a "jolly", eg he would not be accompanied by his wife. He was very busy with the Home Affairs Committee, but the Secretary of State had encouraged him to take up the invitation. He wanted to do anything he could to help the Government.

3. He had visited Hong Kong in 1984 and advocated a tough line with Vietnamese Boat People. He had prepared a report on New Territories' immigrants in the UK. During this visit he hoped to study the police, prisons, counterfeiting and drug money laundering, immigration and nationality questions and the Vietnamese migrants. He would be in Hong Kong over the New Year holiday but hoped he could do something more useful on 1 January than visit Macao.

4.

I confirmed that Ministers valued such visits, undertook to send Sir J Wheeler some background briefing and said that I would check programme arrangements with HKGO before he lunches with the Deputy Commissioner, Mr K C Kwong.

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