DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note
FROM: Lady Young
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Baroness Joan Vickers
House of Lords
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CAVEAT
In Confidence
for
Dr Steve isang to be employed tas
a research assistant
in modem Hong Kong stodies
by St Anthony's College, Oxford
Enclosures flag(s)
Thank you for your
letter of 27
October drawing my
the application for a work permiter of Dr Steve Teang
understand
attention to the
have
that following receipt of the further information, which
becent you enslesed with your letter,
h
the Home Office
ffic Lagreed deserved to be reconsidered. Dr Tsang's case merited referral to the Department
have therefore been referred to
that
of Employment. The papers e erenom with the Department of
Employment, who have responsibility for all decisions on
the granting of work permits to applicants from overseas.
You wil1 no doubt wish to pursue this question with
Your letter and its
the Department of
therefore
Employment.
enclosures have e been copied to them SO that they are
aware of your interest in the case. While a decision on
the work permit must be for the Department of Employment,
recognises that we have explained to them that the FCO welèomes Oxford's
desire te
foreste
research post in Hong Kong studies,
| subject of clear and continuing importance to this
and that we welcome the desire of St Anthony's college to create country, and understand their concern to fill it with the
a research post and fill it with the ll shet.
iified candidate
best qualifi