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I must stress
that the name listed are examples only and should not be regarded as our considered recommendation. The information on them, gleaned from media reports, is by no means comprehensive.
Defensive briefs for Ministers (para. 2 of notes)
6.
We have prepared at Appendix V three samples of
defensive briefs for Ministers on the Points System
Brief No. 1: Age points
Brief No. 2: Experience points
Brief No, 3: Education/Training points.
The content of these briefs will need to be expanded and refined, and additional briefs are being produced for other point-scoring criteria. Please let us know however whether this is the kind of material in the right format that will
be useful to Ministers.
Other British Nationals (para. 9 of notes)
7.
should
Our conclusion is that other British nationals not be required to be naturalised as BDTCs in order
to be eligible to apply under the Scheme. A note on our thought is at Appendix VI.
Option for principal beneficiary status (para. 14 of notes)
B.
In recent discussions, we have floated the idea spouse with the higher percentile position the principal beneficiary. On
an overriding public policy
of making the within his/her "queue"
reflection, we do not see
justification for this and
we
may create more work and
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