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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

HOUSE OF COMMONS: FOR ORAL ANSWER

HEAD OF HKD

Please submit:

WHITE O.p. date

a draft answer supplementary notes and background to Parliamentary Relations Unit before NOON

21/05/92

FOR ORAL ANSWER ON

03/06/92

03/06/92

SERIAL NO:

98

ALICE MAHON [HALIFAX] [LA]

QUESTION NO: 3

(Minister)

for approval by

QUESTION

To ask the Secretary of State:

if he will make a statement on the future role of the new Governor of Hong Kong.

Go/1

to keep with PQ file

FOR ANSWER BY

SECRETARY OF STATE

(Minister)

ANSWER

NOON

27 MAY 1992

Reply

PQ s

Sandang Stato

Copy to:

Private Secretary

PS/

MR. GOODLAD

(Minister)

Parliamentary Clerk

MVSAFZ/1

The whole House will want to join me in wishing Mr Patten well as he prepares for this most demanding job. His role and that of the Government will be to administer

Hong Kong justly and efficiently until the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, and to do

everything possible to ensure that

Hong Kong's way of life and economis

success are preserved beyond that.

lay secure foundations for preserving Hong Kong's way of life and economic success

date, as provided on

for in the Joint

Declaration 25)

dor 3115

beyond that

HKD 90/1

QB

Authorised

(Head of Dept)