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HR G Hurst
OLA
M T Walsh Esq
Secretary, International Department
Trades Union Congress
Great Russell Street
LONDON WC1B 3LS
Thank you for your letter of 29 July with which
you enclosed one from the Secretary General of the Hong Kong
Civil Servants General Union, Mr Tsin Sai-nin.
You may be aware that the issues to which Mr Tsin
refers were the subject of a number of Farliamentary
Questions by Mr Robert Parry MP on 7 and 8 August. Although
the written Answers have yet to be published in Hansard, I
enclose copies of the replies which have now been given by
the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
Mr Hurd. I trust that the Written Answers to these PQs will
provide you with sufficient background on the points at
issue.
You will note that Mr Parry took up Mr Tsin's
point about the applicability of Civil Service Regulation 611
and the Letters Patent in dealing with disputes between the
Hong Kong Government and its employees. This is a question
presently before the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong and it
would therefore not be appropriate for me to comment further.
You may know that the Health Inspectors Association
have made representations to Hong Kong's Standing Commission
on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service proposing
the setting up of an independent arbitration board to deal
/with