My Ref: MPOI
Telephone 0373 723425
Mr Archic Hamilton, MP,
House of Commons,
London, SWIA OAA
30 The Hidi
Surrava
KT18 SJJ
15th Hav, 1992
Dear Mr Hamilton,
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I ·ead with extreme annoyance,
item lu this morning # Sunday rimes alleging that the Foreign Office had COMMIS== sioned Some £7,000 worth of ceremonial garb For Chris Patten to wear Governor of Hong Kong.
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Obviously if true, this pales into insignificance in the context C+ the Foreign Office s spending generally but I would
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know, firstly whether the allegation is true and, secondly, what You and your colleagues
intending to do about the contu i. 10
profligacy of the Civil Service
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Hopefully, you will have noticed that literally hundreds thousands) of Civil Servants are employed full-time expense, to monitor and criticise the work of others in the public sector but who appear to make Tittle positive contribution Society themselves and who
ear o be totall beyond the control of Ministers
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I apologise if my one appears to be a trifle strident but I am extremely rustrated with yet another Conservati ve administration thac has promised minimal state intervention
lower taxation and which appears to be completely unable
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Yours sincerely,
P. A.
(Mr P.A.Wright)