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decision in the opposite sense in 1985, that it is the responsibility of HMG to finance such a scheme.
It will now be
necessary to approach the Treasury before submitting the matter for collective consideration by Ministers: but in view of the recent difficulties of securing agreement over strategy in the DCA negotiations it was considered unwise to take the matter up for the present. The Governor has accepted this position.
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Recently the Association of Expatriate Civil Servants in Hong Kong have written to Ministers and MP's concerning the adverse
a result of the decline in effects on sterling values of pensions as value of the Hong Kong dollar. Ministers' replies have taken the line used in the Points to Make.
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