[DBIAGQ]
CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
Telephone 01-
233 4439
On file to me please
6/12.
K O Shipley Esq, CBE Civil Service Branch Government Secretariat HONG KONG
Your reference
Our reference
HKK 233/1
Date
27 November 1985
Dea keith,
LIMITED COMPENSATION SCHEME: MR WM MCINTYRE
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vour letter of 5 October about Chief Inspector
Eliza Lau's reminder 0:
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statement of this nature It therefore become s difficult for the assurance given to Mr McIntyre on behalf C the Hong Kong Government by Lily Lam in her letter of 16 August. That saic.
aware of the need to give Mr McIntyre ¿ therefore been considering care fully how this
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Subject to your agreement I propose that Lily should write to Mr McIntyre on the following lines:
tt have consulted the Foreign and Commonwealth office (which includes the Overseas Development Administration) concerning the guarantees that you have requested. They have advised that it
is
not the practice of Her Majesty's Government to make statements ΟΙ that kind. However they have noted that the Hong Kong Government, which is responsible for the payment of your pension under the Pensions Ordinance, Chapter 89, has provided you with the assurance you have sought. On the position of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service in Hong Kong, Lady Young, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, stated in the House of Lords on 14 March 1985 that "the Government fully recognises the particular concerns of HMOC S officers in Hong Kong and will continue to keep their interests in mind in
in the 12 years leading up to 1997" (Hansard 14 March
Col 248)."
copied to AP 298/61c (88)
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