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expenditure report and the separate 1992/93 provisional outturn summary for the CTU which FMIS prepared respectively on 30 June 1993 and 6 July 1993. This can only, I think, be done properly by FMIS themselves (but please see my comments below on local budget expenditure for the CTU).
LOCAL BUDGET
Under a long
We do not have a separate budget for the CTU. standing arrangement, all local expenditure on behalf of the CTU - with the sole exception of local travel costs (subhead A1 (3) (F)) which are charged through interpost arrangements to. the Embassy in Peking are debited to the BTC's local budget. This arrangement does however give a false reading of the costs both of running the DTC in Hong Kong and export promotion work in China. We ought perhaps to prepare a separate local budget for the CTU to be incorporated in the Embassy's local budget bid (and to charge non-local budget items such as office and residential costs also to the CTU in FMIS summaries of costs in future)? The CTU, as you know, operates in the eight southern provinces of China. CTU staff do not undertake export promotion work in Hong Kong.
TMR
Only Sections 2 and 8 of the return are relevant to the CTU' s operations from this office (Sections 3 to 7 inclusive will be covered for China as a whole by the Embassy in Peking). But perhaps I could just add a comment on section 7. This is that the CTU find the efforts of the British Council in Hong Kong, and the British Council's director for southern China (the latter's office is the Council's equivalent of the CTU), particularly helpful and supportive in south China, at present especially in the environmental sector.
In completing Section 2,.I have assumed that the Consulate-General at Canton will not be established by 31 March 1995. At 2A, I have bid for a DS9 commercial officer to bring the CTU complement up to three full-time UK-based staff (ie a DS6, a DS7 and DS9). There has been a good deal said about this new post already (most recently by Christopher Hum in his minute of 3 August 1993 to Edward Glover, MRS) and there is no need here to rehearse the arguments which have now been accepted in principle by the Embassy, Mr Hum and this office. Our hope of course is that the new DS9 post will be added to the CTUS ADEST before 31 March 1994 but for form's sake I have included it in our current bid. Since Peter McCoy (D$7 ex-Los Angeles) will be joining the CTU in mid-September, I am assuming there is no need to include the new DS7 post in the TMR return for FY 1994/95.
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