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FROM HONG KONG UNIT, B2 DIV.
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last minute. HKID privately share my assessment that getting the review under way in the next few months would be premature and I hope that we can dissuade the Secretary for Security if he takes the matter any further.
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10. Whenever the review may be, it will be important for the head of the HONT to be closely involved and he or she will need to be politically
in addition to their management responsibilities. The Hong Kong government will be looking for a strong policy and administrative input from us, and we should get in on the ground floor (preferably being represented on whatever working group
group or committee is established here). Obvious Home Office issues and interests include the lessons learned from the first tranche (eg whether the quotas properly matched demand and Hong Kong's requirements, whether the presentation of the scheme was as effective as it should have been and how the bureaucracy actually worked), whether the Governor should be given greater flexibility to allow for special circumstances like age and international reputation (the Ella Cheong type of case) and the HONT staffing. On the latter point I suggested in the PES 1992 bids that the HONT complement should be reduced during the first six months of 1994 to allow for the inevitable delay in cases coming through in the early stages of the second tranche and I assume that this is now our position for planning purposes?
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