Registry No.
ECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential.
DRAFT C
ADMINISTRATION IN CONFIDENCE
DRAFT SUBMISSION
Type 1 +
From
To:-
PS/Secretary of State
PUS
Telephone No. Ext.
DSR 11
Restricted.
Unclassified.
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Department
In Confidence DEPENDENT TERRITORIES SENIOR APPOINTMENTS BOARD
c PS/Mr Hurd
PS/Mr Ridley
Chief Clerk
Mr Cortazzi
Mr Stratton
· ̈1.
In recent years appointments of Governors and eertain
other senior saff in our remaining Dependent Territories
have been handled separately from Diplomatic Service
appointments.
They have been considered by a special
Board (the Dependent Territories Senior Appointments Board)
which has met from time to time under my Chairmanship
to make recommendations to the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State has been represented on the Board
by a junior Minister. Apart from myself, the other members
of the Board include the Chief Clerk, the Head and Deputy
Head of Personnel Operations Department, and senior
officials concerned with Dependent Territories.
Governor (currently Sir David Trench who was Governor of
Hong Kong from 1964-71) and a representative of the
Overseas Development Administration are also members.
2. The Dependent Territories Senior Appointments Board
was established in 1969, soon after the merger of the
Foreign and Commonwealth offices. Since then there has
A former
been a steady decline in the number of our dependent
territories, and there are now fewer than 20 posts which
come within the Board's terms of reference. The Board
has seldom had cause to meet in recent years, most
appointments having been satisfactorily dealt with out of
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A MINIMIOPHAPTON II QURPINNMOB
/Committee.