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benefit to the UK if, contrary to expectation, they decided
to come here. Although it would mean substituting our
definition of who are key personnel for the Governor's, and
would effectively
effectively rule out some employees of British
concerns (PSA, British Trade Commission, British Council and
see below), I propose that we should exclude
from the scheme those groups with an emigration rate of 1%
or lower, ie the last seven groups on the list at Annex C2,
together with the following nine other categories, which do
not have a sufficiently key role in maintaining the
prosperity of Hong Kong;
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26. performers, entertainment and sports personnel
14. social work professionals
22.
health associate professionals (except nursing)
15. writers and creative artists
20. engineering associate professionals
17.
religion professionals
19. information science associate professionals
24.
social work associate professionals
16.
archivists,
interpreters.
librarians,
translators
and
17.
The exclusion of these sixteen groups would reduce the pool
of eligible workers from HKG's proposed 2.6 million to some
485,000.
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