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Michael Latham Esq MP
House of Commons
London
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I submit a draft reply
SWLA OAA
M V Stone, HKD
4 May 1990
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who take advantäys I the scheme,
Thank you for your letter of 30 April enclosing one from your constituent, Mr M H Tallboys of 10 Walnut Close, Stretton, about pensions of Hong Kong Civil Servants.
The purpose of the nationality package is to anchor key people in Hong Kong by giving them the confidence to remain there. The Joint Declaration and the Basic Law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region both make/ixpres explicit provision for the continued employment of civil servants after 1997 states that public servants previously serving in Hong Kong may all remain in employment and continue their service with pay, allowances, benefits and conditions of service no less
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favourable than before," and that the Hong Kong Special Administralin Region will similarly pay pensions inestetin of the nationality or place of residence
Your constituent's questions about whether the British people will need to meet pensionser other liabilities therefore does not arise. If some Hong Kong Civil Servants chose to leave Hong Kong and come to the United
Kingdom, that will be a matter for them: the United
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