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him to find out if Carroll really has anything of importance in mind. If there is something of substance we will of course look at it, but if not we will have to contrive some means of persuading the Regional Director's office to drop this requirement, which would look very odd indeed to Finance Committee or indeed anyone else loss of face.
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you, but is for information in case Carroll has raised some hue and cry in Whitehall. I am sure we can sort this out amicably amongst ourselves here. The important thing is that the building programme is going ahead satisfactorily and all that the fuss is about, I suspect, is a piece of semantics.
I hope we will be able to let you know soon that the whole thing is settled.
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