§ Mr. KaufmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, pursuant to his supplementary answer of 16 February.Official Report, column 581, he will state the occasions on which the Chinese Government publicly expressed a preference for direct elections in Hong Kong to start with 10 directly elected seats.
§ Mr. SainsburyWe are not aware that the Chinese Government have publicly expressed a view on the precise number of directly elected seats before 1997.