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FROM:
N J Cox
+KA 233/6
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Sir J Coles
coles
190 Minuto
J.C.U.
HM OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS):
POSTS IN OTHER DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
P.a.
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CC:
Hong Kong Department
19 August 1992
PS/PUS
Miss Sutherland
Mr Beamish
Mr Greenstock
Mr Baker, WIAD
1. Miss Sutherland's minute of 18 August to Mr Beamish argues
that, although we are to tell Hong Kong HMOCS officers that
their applications for posts in other Dependent Territories
will be considered on an equal basis with applications from DS
officers, in fact the Administration will give preference to DS applications. This seems to me undesirably disingenuous, particularly given the possibility of judicial review of our
treatment of HMOCS officers.
2.
Miss Sutherland refers to Ministers' decisions about the
future staffing of the Dependent Territories, notably the decision to build up a cadre of DS officers with DT expertise.
However I understand that Ministers took those decisions
without the benefit of advice about the implications for our
obligations towards HMOCS, or indeed about the possibility of our exploiting some of the expertise available in Hong Kong to
promote the Government's objectives in the other DTs.
I think we should put these issues to Ministers before we
say anything further to the HMOCS Association in Hong Kong.
3.
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