PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hong Kong: Politics and Government (8 October 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the Hong Kong government's decision to ban the Hong Kong National Party with the Sino-British Joint Declaration; and what representations he has made to the government of Hong Kong on that matter.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

The Government issued the following statement on 24 September 2018 following the announcement by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to ban the Hong Kong National Party (HKNP):

“We are concerned by the decision of the Hong Kong SAR Government to prohibit the HKNP. This is the first time a party has been banned under the Societies Ordinance since the handover.

The UK does not support Hong Kong independence, but Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy and its rights and freedoms are central to its way of life, and it is important they are fully respected.”

We have discussed this issue with the Hong Kong authorities.

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Answered by:
Mark Field (Conservative)
11 October 2018