CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: R M Marsden
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HKB 431 / 4 14
Hong Kong Department
RECEIVED
DATE: 14 September 1990
0300719
cc: PS/Lord Caithness
Mr Burns
Mr McLaren
Private Secretary
HONG KONG: MP'S LETTER ON MATTERS OF CONCERN TO MEMBERS OF
HER MAJESTY'S OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)
A
Problem
1.
The Rt Hon Merlyn Rees MP has written to the Secretary
of State enclosing a letter from the Association of
Expatriate Civil Servants (AECS) of Hong Kong raising issues:
of concern to HMOCS members. How should we reply?
Recommendation
I recommend that the Secretary of State should reply in
the terms of the short draft letter attached. ODA and Legal
Advisers are content.
2.
Background
3. The letter from the AECS is apparently associated with a briefing paper which Mr Rees has not enclosed. However the two issues identified in the letter Supplementary Pension for Overseas Service (SPOS) and protection against
depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar
subjects to us. They relate to the wider question of
arrangements for HMOCS members at the transfer of
sovereignty in 1997.
Value of the Hong Kong dollar
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are both familiar
4. The Overseas Service Pensioners Association (OSPA) have
long argued that pensions for HMOCS members in Hong Kong
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