Mr Burns
CONFIDENTIAL
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FROM: N J Cox
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 4 November 1991
cc: Mr Ricketts
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Mr Fish, ODA
Mr Kerby, ODA
Mr Muir, Principal Finance Officer
HMOCS MATTERS: MEETING WITH THE TREASURY
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Our letters to the Treasury of August, 13 September and
(58) 15 October put forward our detailed proposals on
compensation/incentive scheme and pensions arrangements for HMOCS officers and followed up by answering their specific
TES questions. Mr Mortimer's letter of 31 October asks to see details of our calculations of the potential costs of a sterling safeguard and of the costs of the SPOS adjustments. The ODA will make every effort to provide as much detail as possible in the next few days, but it is difficult to be much more specific than in Annex C of my letter of 29 August to Mountfield, as these adjustments depend on a number of unknown variables.
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Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, pressure for an announcement continues to build up. The new HMOCS Association, with a responsible chairman in Michael Cartland, a senior Administrative officer and currently Director of Social Welfare, are extremely disappointed about the absence of an announcement. Even more worrying is the expatriate Police Inspectorate who have a more militant tendency. The
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