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The following were the main points to emerge from today's meeting:
- After a lengthy discussion on PADS the Minister stressed the need for the Hong Kong Government to come forward with firm plans and figures for the best stages of the project. He agreed with your suggestion that the Prime Minister would need to be in a position to say something positive on all of this at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Dinner on Thursday
6 December.
- Lord Caithness questionned the rationale for giving special treatment to the wives of British ex-patriots in government service as distinct from the wives of British ex-patriots employed elsewhere. You undertook to submit a note explaining policy and suggesting how it should be presented to non-government ex-patriot employees who are likely to feel hard done by.
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The Minister suggested that the solution on the Bill of Rights
(ie subject to the letters patent before 1997 and to the Basic Law thereafter) might be the best outcome, legal objections notwithstanding.
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Peter Tibber
PS/Lord Caithness
5 November 1990
Redacted under FOI exemption 27(1)