Mr Burns
PS/Lord Caithness
PS
CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG: FUTURE RN PRESENCE
Problem
FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 17 October 1991
cc: PS/Mr Garel-Jones
PS/PUS
Sir A Watts
Sir J Coles
Mr Broomfield
Mr Beamish
Mr Goulden
M Muir
Mr Smith, NPDD
Mr Dew, RMD
Mr Hunt, SAAD
Mor Griffiths Finance Reger
a
1.
Action with the MOD now that the Governor of Hong Kong has reconfirmed there is no way of Hong Kong providing additional funds for the RN patrol craft.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Private Secretary should write to PS/Defence Secretary setting out the position and making clear that we see this as a charge which properly falls to the MOD. I submit a draft.
TICACP/1
CONFIDENTIAL