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and they need to consider it as part of the wider question
of terms and conditions for their Civil Service up to 1997.
We continue to explore the possibilities with them. But as
we envisage no UK financial commitment, I do not think we
need discuss this when we meet.
4. I hope you will agree that we also need not discuss the
question of UK pensions supplements (SPOS) payable to
existing Hong Kong pensioners under UK pensions
legislation. David Mellor recognised the degree of
inequity of present arrangements, so I hope that we can
agree now that officials should implement the necessary
changes.
5.
These commitments would all be handled by the ODA, with costs being charged to the Superannuation Vote. They would
require separate provision from 1997 onwards (John Major
accepted in 1988 that we could not justify the diversion of
Aid funds to Hong Kong for the compensation scheme but left it to a future government to decide how to deal with the
funding in PES terms.)
6.
I am copying this minute to the Chief Secretary.
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(Approved by the Foreign Secretary
and signed in his absence by
Simon Gass, Private Secretary)
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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