ET MOR
FILE
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
14 February 1991
PW Heap Esq CMG
British Trade Commission Hong Kong
Dear Peter,
SON OF SECONDMENT SCHEME
·HKD 340/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTI
22 FEB 199
ORK OFFICER
INDEX
PA
_HKD 026/1
91
Thank you for your letter of 8 February enclosing a copy of one from Mark Tress of Barclays Bank. It was good to see this evidence of yet another satisfied customer. Your point about the value of having this slot in a ministerial visit is well understood here.
2.
I was intrigued by the reference in Mr Tress's letter to a "son of secondment scheme". As you know, the plan is to review the position in the course of this year, perhaps in September. However, in view of the disappointingly low take-up of the nationality scheme, I would rate the chances of anything coming of this as nil, unless there is a massive last minute surge of interest.
IMPADL
Yours
ever,
Alan
AR Paul