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Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

Aw Tibber

FROM: P F Ricketts, HKD

DATE: 6 February 1992

cc: Private Secretary

PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

ORAL PQ IN THE LORDS: 11 FEBRUARY: APPOINTMENT OF A NEW

GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG

I submit a proposed draft reply and supplementary for Lord Boyd-Carpenter's Oral Question. I thought that it would be worth copying these papers more widely than normal PQ clearance processes, given the sensitivities.

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P F Ricketts

Hong Kong Department

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