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Ivor Stanbrook
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You told me in
the House the other evening that you felt
that I had failed to respond in
to respond in my winding-up speech to
the points you made in the debate on the Second Reading
of the Hong Kong Bill on 21 January
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I have looked at Hansard. One point you made, to which I
see that I did not specifically reply, concerned Her
Majesty's Overseas Civil Servants. You said that members
of the Overseas Civil Service in Hong Kong had a right to
know that their interest would be safeguarded in respect
of promotion, transfer and pensions, and that if they
continued to serve in Hong Kong they should be entitled
to all the rights that they would have enjoyed had Hong
Kong remained a British Dependent Territory.
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As I said in our previous debate on the agreement
December, part IV of Annex I to the agreement provides
satisfactorily for continuity of service by serving
officers in the public service of Hong Kong on terms and