Lord Carver
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Many thanks for your minute of 14 October about Roy Henry. I am delighted that he is prepared to take on the Salisbury job with you, and I am sure that any administrative problems can be ironed out.
2. However, I do not think I can give you off the cuff the assurance Henry wants that his net emoluments will be no less than he is now receiving and that he won't be out of pocket in any other way. I frankly don't know what allowances the Commissioner of Police gets in Hong Kong. I believe that his salary is about £21,000, which given that the maximum tax rate in Hong Kong is 15% - should give him a take home pay of around £17,000. To maintain that level of net disposable income would mean paying him a pretty fearsome sum if he became subject to UK tax, and I think that this might well constitute something of a problem. But when he is in Salisbury, I imagine that he would be paid from Rhodesian funds. Hong Kong might also be prepared to go on paying a proportion of his salary while he was on secondment.
3. It looks to me as if the first step should be for our Personnel Policy Department to get together with Murray Maclehose's people and put a figure to the assurance that Henry wants. If you agree, PPD will get cracking on this straightaway.
17 October 1977
cc Private Secretary
Sir A Duff
Chief Clerk Mr Graham
Mr Ling, PPD
Mr Stewart, HKGD
Michael Palliser
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