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CONFIDENTIAL Department of Employment
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Secretary of State
C.C. PS/Minishers
Ps/Seweling Mr MANLLY
M. Davide Mouhitaker Mr Niblett
The Rt Hon David Waddington QC MP
Secretary of State
Home Office
Queen Annes Gate
LONDON SW1H 9AT
Den David
1J'7 January
y 1990
DEPENDENT TERRITORIES WORK PERMIT QUOTA
House about
in the Following the statement
on Hong Kong
20 December, I would like to turn to the proposal in your letter of 15 December to Douglas to abolish the Dependent Territories Work Permit Quota (DT Quota). I have seen Douglas' reply suggesting that the Quota be retained for Dependent Territories other than Hong Kong.
it
I agree with Douglas that the Quota should be retained for these
think But I also Territories and that 50 is the right limit. would be potentially and unnecessarily damaging to put an end to our current Hong Kong Quota at this time, with little benefit.
to the
The current figure of 150 Hong Kongers is hardly a threat resident labour force; and, more to the point, there is no connection between the Quota scheme, which for more than 20 years has provided a small number of opportunities for unskilled workers
this country, and to help the Chinese catering industry in
the
To make
current proposals for up to 50,000 professional families. such a connection by combining the withdrawal of one,with development of the other would create the wrong impression. could give ammunition to those who criticise the new proposals elitist, and it would produce considerable resentment bitterness among our sizeable resident Chinese community.
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Our Chinese community works predominantly in the catering It is the caterers who largely employ those who fill the Hong Kong Quota. The representative Chinese associations have been pressing for an announcement of the Quota figure, customarily made early in the year, and their caterers will have already recruited in Hong
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