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(ii)
The
Governor's Address of October 1985; with
Annex
of supporting departmental summaries significant developments during the year;
an
of
(iii)
The Financial Secretary's Budget Speech of
February 1985; and
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(iv)
The Financial Secretary's 1985 half yearly Economic Review, which is put out in September.
(I attach copies of (iii) for this year and (ii) and (iv) for 1984)
With the exception of the introduction and the annex of
supporting departmental summaries these will all be public
documents.
4.
whether
Having
the
looked at
proposed
the se documents I have
format would be right.
s ome doubts
It would
mos t of it
produce a White Paper of about 150 pages,
the introduction could
consisting of already published material. Of this only
properly be said to be a report by
to Parliament. I wonder if this
complaining that they were being
the Secretary of State
would not lead to MPs
provided only with an indigestible collection of already
available documents, and that Ministers we re not taking
the trouble to report personally to Parliament.
5. The an swer to this might be to expand the introductory
section SO that it became the main body of the report, and
to annex to it only the Governor's annual address to
LEGCO. The report could include a general summary of the
events of the year, starting with the Agreement and
related areas, such as the Joint Liaison Group, and going
on to take in the most important departmental summaries
proposed by the Governor. It would be difficult to avoid duplicating much of the material in the Governor's speech,
but that i s inevitable. The report could cover the
economic position and prospects,
thus making the addition
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