Mr Stanley
STAFF IN CONFIDENCE
STAFFING THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES IN THE 1980s
1.
The Secretary of State now retains responsibility for only 18 dependencies and responsibility for the appointment of senior staff (including Governors) for 15 of these. Given reasonable success for
our policies, 5 more territories should become independent by the end of this decade (The Solomans, the Gilberts, Tuvalu, the New Hebrides and Bermuda). Of the 10 remaining territories, some (Belize, Falklans and Gibraltar) will only become independent if the neighbouring states drop territorial claims against them or if some acceptable accommodation is reached with these neighbours, and Hong Kong will not become independent for well-known reasons. The remaining dependencies (Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha, and the Turks and Caicos) are, in general, either too small and poor: to be viable and/or unwilling to give up the advantages of dependence. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problem of providing senior staff for the remaining 10 dependencies into the 1980s. have dealt only with Governors, senior administrators and judicial and legal officers, whose appointments are made by the Secretary of State. Almost all professional and technical officers are recruited by the ODM on Overseas Service Aid Schemes or technical co-operation terms. (Hong Kong officers are recruited direct by the Hong Kong Government Office.)
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2. There is no need to consider the problem of staff for Hong Kong, with the one exception of the Governor. There are presently some 120 expatriate administrators ranging from newly appointed cadets to the Chief Secretary who has 28 years' service. A similar pattern applies to the judicial and senior legal staff. Hong Kong is there- fore effectively self-sufficient, continues to recruit staff into the administrative and judicial grades and has a career structure which will provide its top management for many years to come. Hong Kong has a requirement for a trickle of experienced officers from
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