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Mr McLaren

Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers

Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) ACT: BRITISH UNDERTAKINGS

Problem

A 1.

The attached list of British undertakings is now ready

for Ministerial approval.

Recommendation

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2. I recommend that Lord Caithness approves the list. are submitting it in parallel to Mr Sainsbury. Our Legal

Adviser has been consulted.

B

Background

3. The background to the Committee's work is set out in my submission of 20 December. The attached list is an expanded

and refined version of the one attached to that submission.

It consists of seven individual lists compiled according to

criteria which are set out at the head of each list.

4.

The list comprises the bulk of companies known to the Committee which are likely to be regarded as British but does not include the 20 or so "difficult" companies, such as

Hutchisons and Wharfs. The Committee are not yet ready to

finalise their recommendations on such companies as they are

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