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STANDING COMMITTEE TO MONITOR THE PLANNING PAPER
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1. You asked for my thoughts on the next meeting of the
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Mr Cortazzi for 23 February). I think that agenda items can be drawn from five sources. These are:
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(a) the minutes of the First Meeting of the Standing
Committee held on 21 October 1976;
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the record of conversation on 9 December 1976 between Lord Goronwy-Roberts and the Governor of Hong Kong;
the Planning Paper itself;
the most recent set of quarterly reports to be submitted by the Hong Kong Government; and
(e) any ideas we have ourselves.
I shall take each of these points in turn.
Minutes of the First Meeting of the Standing Committee to monitor the Hong Kong Planning Paper, 21 October 1976
2. I think that further action is necessary on the following points:
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the quarterly reports. HKD undertook to produce a summary of them: the Hong Kong Government have not yet produced them all (and we are writing for those from the Conference, Finance and Councils Branches);
(b) particular interest was expressed in the agenda and
minutes of a Labour Advisory Board's meetings and, despite a reminder, these have not yet been sent to us;
(c)
we expressed an interest in an early sight of the budget papers. I think this point must by now have been taken fully on board;
(a) the Deputy Secretary (Information) project;
(e)
the two-way secondment project;
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