Mr Quantrill
Mr McLaren
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13 JUL 1978
DESK OFFICER
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1 NO. 51
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INSPECTION OF DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1. I attach a draft circular to issue to certain dependent territories regarding changes in our practice of inspecting them. It has been approved by the Chief Inspector.
2.
The background to this is that dependent territories have recevied visits from Inspectors in the past but on a haphazard basis (see attached list). The Inspectors have also tended to restrict their field of study to matters of direct concern to FCO ie security, communications, and officers paid for on the DS vote. We feel this field should be extended. We also feel that the Inspectors should visit territories as a matter of course and not just if the Governors wish it as has happened in the past.
3.
The attached draft was to have issued to all dependent territories except those heading for Independence within the next year. I feel, however, that it does not apply in toto to Bermuda and Hong Kong whose Governors enjoy much better conditions than those of other territories. I suggest therefore that the letter should issue to these 2 Governors "for information" but that a covering letter should accompany it. I attach a draft.
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E. Gregor.
CODE 18 - 77
8 June 1978
Mrs E T Gregory
Hong Kong & General Dept
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have discussed that with this Gregory, whether or not we should treat Hong Kong and Bermunda differently from the others, and the attached draft reflects clusion. But I am still undecided. My instinct is to have a consistent policy for all territories: we may be confident enough now that the pay and grading of the havonins in the two teritories are comfortably above our acceptable minima, but can we be certain that it will always be so? of later, doubts do arise it would be much more endarussing to have to carry out a special exercise to get the evidence than it would beto draw on evidence collected as a matter of course during
during a regular system of review that applied to all territories. There is also the danger that by excluding Hong Kong and Benda we shall offend the sensitivities
of