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House of Lords final debate on Hong Kong before the handover (12th June 1997 Unstarred Question)

Final debate in the House of Lords on Hong Kong before the handover to the People's Republic of China. This Unstarred Question was asked by Lord Thomas of Gresford 12th June 1997, 18 days before the handover. Footage courtesy the Parliamentary Recording Unit. Follow along in Hansard: https://api.parliament.uk /historic-hansard/lords/1997/jun/12/hong-kong Possible only in the House of Lords, this debate includes contributions not only from the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, Lord MacLehose of Beoch, but also from Baroness Dunn, whom MacLehose of Beoch made an 'unofficial member' of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. She served on LegCo from 1976-88, and on the Executive Council from 1982-95. Born in Hong Kong, Baroness Dunn is the second person from that Crown Colony to be ennobled, after the industrialist and hotelier Lord Kadoorie. Although, in the medieval period, temporal peers had to be English to be able to sit in the House (for example the Poitevan knight Guichard d'Angle who was created Earl of Huntingdon in 1377 and yet who did not attend the House), it was possible for non-UK-based peers to sit in the Lords until the 2010 Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, which (amongst many other things) removed any peer from the Lords who was not based for tax purposes in the UK and who would not change that status. Baroness Dunn, based in Hong Kong where she was born, was removed from the House of Lords under that act. As an Unstarred Question (taken at the end of the day and giving rise to debate), Lord Thomas of Gresford asks HM Government: 'what steps they are taking to support the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong and to maintain the common law system in the administration of justice in Hong Kong courts, in accordance with the autonomy accorded to Hong Kong in the Joint Declaration.' 0:00:07 Lord Thomas of Gresford (Liberal Democrat) 0:12:35 4th Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Labour) 0:19:35 Lord Marlesford (Conservative) 0:28:51 Baroness Dunn (Crossbencher, former member of Hong Kong's Legislative and Executive Councils) 0:36:36 5th Lord Monkswell (Labour) 0:45:07 Lord Howe of Aberavon (Conservative) 0:56:02 Lord MacLehose of Beoch (Crossbencher, former Governor of Hong Kong) 1:04:42 21st Lord Willoughby de Broke (Conservative) 1:08:12 Lord MacLehose of Beoch intervenes 1:08:30 21st Lord Willoughby de Broke (Conservative) 1:10:35 4th Lord Moynihan (Official Opposition, Conservative) 1:19:52 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, Labour) 1:33:45 HM Government Whip moves the adjournment 1:33:50 The House adjourns (full procession of the mace cut from this clip)