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The official report of all Parliamentary debates. The debates of the two houses have been published in separate volumes since the early 1900s.

The official website at https://hansard.parliament.uk/ contains Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back from 1909. In that year Parliament took over the publication and established its own staff of official Hansard reporters.





Documents on the Taiwan Status issue


The ROC in Formosa is a provisional administration
  [July 26, 1950]     Provisional administration pending peace settlement


Chiang Kai-shek who, having for a very long time fought on our side, was driven out of his country by a Communist revolution
  [July 14, 1954]     Chiang took refuge upon Formosa, where he still remains


President Eisenhower is not suggesting that the United States should enlarge its defensive obligations
  [Jan. 26, 1955]     President Eisenhower would sanction the use of US forces only with the greatest reluctance


The question of the fighting in the Formosa Straits is to be considered by the Security Council today
  [Jan. 31, 1955]     The first concern of Her Majesty's Government is to find a way to stop the fighting


The question of future sovereignty over Formosa was left undetermined by the Japanese Peace Treaty.
  [Feb. 1, 1955]     Cairo Declaration of 1st Dec. 1943 contained merely a statement of common purpose


Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa on basis of military occupation
  [Feb. 4, 1955]     1945 arrangements did not constitute Formosa as Chinese territory


RE: Cairo and Potsdam Declarations
  [Feb. 7, 1955]     No transfer of sovereignty in 1945


RE: Legal Status of Formosa and the Pescadores
  [Feb. 9, 1955]     Unilateral declarations have no effect


RE: Far East (Formosa and the Pescadores)
  [May 4, 1955]     Military occupation


RE: The International Situation
  [Dec. 21, 1955]     Exile in Formosa


RE: Formosa and the Pescadores (Sovereignty)
  [Jan. 30, 1956]     Sovereignty in Abeyance





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