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A C GALSWORTHY,
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14 August 1984
Mr Marshall, Finance Dept
OAB 2/114
CC: Mr Morris, PPD (3M 302)
Mr Masefield, PSD (2M 253)
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: TEST OF ACCEPTABILITY:
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
1.
30
Thank you for your minute of 10 August.
COUNTERVAILING SAVINGS
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2.
answer
You ask what savings I foresee in my area of responsibility.
which might be used to pay for the monitoring exercise. The short
is none. The only diplomatic service post in Hong Kong is
the British Trade Commission. The DTI will be best placed to advise
on whether our trade promotion effort in this important market
should be reduced. I doubt whether they would recommend it, and
certainly in the present climate, it would be most unwise to
contemplate any step which appeared to reduce the British connection
with Hong Kong. As for the London based work, there is more likely
to be a need for increase than decrease given the importance and
political sensitivity of issues with which the Department at
has to deal.
present
FEES
3. I explained both in my submission of 3 August and in my minute
of 7 August why the equivalence must be with a Hong Kong Justice of
Appeal (the Hong Kong based monitor) rather than with any UK
counterpart. The Secretary of State has already accepted the
principle that the Hong Kong monitor could scarcely be expected to
take a cut in income: and that the two monitors must receive the
same fee.
I think therefore that we have no alternative but to
offer the UK monitor a fee equivalent to the monthly income of his
Hong Kong counterpart, that is at a level slightly higher than the
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