(a)
CONFIDENTIAL
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We carefully examined the organisation of
the Assessment Office; we noted the practice
run it had carried out on the submissions
received by the Government in response to
its Green Paper of July 1984 on "The Further
Development of Representative Government
in Hong Kong"; and we attended a presentation,
arranged at our request, of the assessment
procedures it planned to apply. We also
made it our business to know the individual
members of the Assessment Office, and observe,
without interfering, how they were performing
their duties.
(b) We carried out spot checks of the way in
which the Assessment Office was implementing
its own procedures that is, the operational
processes of collecting the letters and
(c)
submissions from P.O. Box 9000, of registering,
translating, analysing and assessing them; and of disposing
of them with the necessary safeguards for confidentiality.
We arranged to receive and scrutinise ourselves
each day all the letters, submissions and media
reports and articles received as a basis for checking