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125000 achully
slight grelle.
He means
Mr P Ricketts
Head
FCO
of HKD
London
हिंद
Den Pela
Дев
UK PASSPORT SCHEME
1.
нко 34311
17 JAN 1992
DESK OFFICER
INDEX
PA
ACT
BRITISH TRADE COMMISSION
HONG KONG.
2 January 1992
As/Land Guittress
Mr Burns
copied
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Mine
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190,000 by my arithmetic.
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You will recall that when the scheme was created for the award of British passports to 50,000 Hong Kong heads of family, there was considerable speculation and controversy about how many additional passports would be issued to dependants. Most sources in Hong Kong, including this post, predicted that the number of dependants would be considerably less than that forcast by the Home Office, and that therefore the total number of passports issued would be considerably less than the_250,000 at one time envisaged. At the last meeting of the Passport Steering Committee I asked whether it was yet possible to predict what the total numbers might be.
2.
The response, from the Immigration Department rep- resentatives, was that among the successful candidates for passports, and those that it is currently possible to predict as likely to succeed, the number of dependants per successful candidate averaged 2.8. This is likely to produce a total
the multipher number of around 150.000 passports ie much less than almost
all the figures banded around at the time the legislation ze went through Parliament.
for family
Size
is 2.8. ic.:
I principal boneficiary
I spouse + 0.8 children.
2.8.
This is the figure produced by
examining the breakdown produced by the Home Office Nat. Team
Yours ever,
Peler
PW Heap
for preparacions citizens registered to date, (well, its 2.9 actually, but let's not quibble!)