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DATE: 19 December 1990
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DEPENDENT TERRITORIES WORK PERMIT QUOTA
Problem
1. The Home Office's proposed answer to an inspired PQ
announcing the abolition of this quota for Hong Kong is
unsatisfactory. What is to be done?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that we should tell the Department of
Employment that the Home Office draft is unsatisfactory and suggest that the announcement be deferred to enable
Departments to reconcile their differences. I submit a
draft letter from the Secretary of State. Department of
Employment officials agree.
Background
3. The background to the quota is contained in my
submission of 4 December. The problem is that the Home
Office wish to use the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act to
justify the abolition of the quota for Hong Kong. The
Secretary of State wrote on 6 December explaining why this
would be a mistake and suggesting a revised draft answer to
the inspired PQ.
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