CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG : TEST OF ACCEPTABILITY
APPOINTMENT OF MONITORING TEAM : FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
PERIOD
1.
For the purpose of these costings, it is assumed that the
monitoring team will be in existence for two months (roughly from
late September to late November 1984). It will need to be in place
before the test of acceptability formally began work, and to
continue until the assessment office had written its report.
FEES
2.
It is proposed that the fee should be Hong Kong dollars 43,500
per month, equivalent to the salary of a Hong Kong Justice of
Appeal. It would be payable in Hong Kong dollars and taxable in
Hong Kong. Both the UK and the Hong Kong monitor would be paid by
HMG (perhaps indirectly in the latter case).
SUBSISTENCE
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3. As the UK based monitor will be living in a hotel for a
relatively long period, it is proposed that he should occupy a
suite. A provisional reservation has been made by the Hong Kong
government in the Hilton Hotel. The cost would be HK$ 1564 per
night. In addition the Hong Kong Government considers that it might
be appropriate for the UK based monitor to be paid daily subsistence
of HK$ 300 to cover meals and other living expenses. These sums are
higher than the class A rate of subsistence in HM Diplomatic
Service, and some downward adjustment might be appropriate.
TRAVEL
4. It is proposed that a first class return air passage Hong Kong/London/Hong Kong should be paid in respect of the UK monitor. If he wished to be accompanied by his wife, it might be necessary
consider an arrangement under which her fare also would be paid.
This could well be a powerful attraction for getting the right
person.
MEDICAL EXPENSES
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It is understood that the usual arrangement, since the Monitors
are being paid by the FCO, is for injury insurance and any medical
expenses to be paid by HMG, but that they would be covered under the
medical scheme and that these costs would not therefore be a
charge on the budget of the present exercise. (An accompanying wife would not be covered by these arrangements).
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