PRIME MINISTER
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10 Downing Street Whitehall
30 October 1975
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Hong Kong Defence Contribution
The Prime Minister has seen your Secretary of 335State's minute M05/14 of 29 October in which Mr. Mason
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recommended that the Minister of State for Defence should
be instructed to proceed, as he has recommended, on the lines
set out in paragraph 2 of Mr. Mason's minute.
In the light of the comments by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Prime Minister agrees that Mr. Rodgers should be
authorised to proceed accordingly, subject to the provisos
requested by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as set out in
Steve Robson's letter of today's date.
I am sending a copy of this letter to the Private wharted Secretaries of the other members of OPD and to Chris Brearley poor). (Cabinet Office).
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P. R. H. WRIGHT
A. J. Cragg, Esq.,
Ministry of Defence.
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