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DEPENDENT TERRITORIES WORK PERMIT QUOTA
Problem
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Action Taken
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A 1. The Home Office would like us to agree now to drop the Dependent
Territories Work Permit Quota for Hong Kong at the end of the current year of its operation. How should we reply?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that we should tell the Home Office that we would
prefer to reserve judgement on what the position should be at the
end of the current year; but that if it became clear, in the course
of the passage of the nationality package through Parliament, that
it would genuinely help to announce the end of the quota, we would raise no objection. That is a judgement which could be made after
Easter, after the introduction of the legislation.
Background
B 3.
C
The Home Secretary would like us to agree now to abolish the
Dependent Territories Work Permit Quota for Hong Kong. He sees it
as a possible concession to opponents to the nationality package.
The Employment Secretary would prefer to review the situation in a year's time.
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