<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>13605</id>
<session>1996-97</session>
<number>464</number>
<title>British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill</title>
<proposer id="10134">Patrick Cormack</proposer>
<date>1997-01-29</date>
<text>That this House welcomes the passage of the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Bill through the House of Lords; and urges Her Majesty's Government to ensure the speedy completion of its remaining stages so that approximately 5000 ethnic minority non-Chinese living in Hong Kong can apply for British citizenship and the right of abode in the United Kingdom as a recognition of their contribution to the life of Hong Kong and their loyalty to the Crown, and in order to give them the same degree of security as those who have either full British citizenship or Chinese nationality.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10134">Patrick Cormack</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>South Staffordshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19103">Roger Sims</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chislehurst</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21726">David Howell</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Guildford</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10366">Peter Lloyd</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fareham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17268">Hugh Dykes</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harrow East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10591">Teddy Taylor</mp>
		<date>1997-01-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10647">Nicholas Winterton</mp>
		<date>1997-01-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Macclesfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10127">Michael Colvin</mp>
		<date>1997-01-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romsey and Waterside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10414">John Marek</mp>
		<date>1997-01-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wrexham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10553">Martin Smyth</mp>
		<date>1997-01-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10399">Kevin McNamara</mp>
		<date>1997-01-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10250">John Gunnell</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds South and Morley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21734">David Knox</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10336">Robert Key</mp>
		<date>1997-02-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Salisbury</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21990">Tim Rathbone</mp>
		<date>1997-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewes</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1997-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10337">Piara S Khabra</mp>
		<date>1997-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ealing, Southall</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10076">Richard Burden</mp>
		<date>1997-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Northfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1997-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10033">Roy Beggs</mp>
		<date>1997-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Antrim</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10135">Jean Corston</mp>
		<date>1997-02-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10275">John Heppell</mp>
		<date>1997-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10325">Nigel Jones</mp>
		<date>1997-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheltenham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22610">Alex Carlile</mp>
		<date>1997-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Montgomery</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1997-02-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>1997-02-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
