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Mr Hum
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PS/Mr Goodrad in anter
Private Secretary
PF Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
12 May 1993
PS/Baroness Chalker
PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Muir
Mr Kirby, ODA
Miss Brooks, Legal
Advisers
Mr Fish, ODA
RMD
HONG KONG: ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY'S OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)
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Whirged
Problem
How to take forward the HMOCS issue in the light of recent discussions with the Cabinet Office.
1.
A
now
Recommendation
2. (i) That we keep the Prime Minister engaged by encouraging No 10 to convene a meeting under his chairmanship to resolve the issue.
(ii) That we seek the Governor's views on the possibility of accepting a compromise solution at such a meeting.
Background
3. Following a meeting with the Secretary of State and the Governor on 16 April, the Prime Minister asked the Cabinet Secretary to recommend a solution to the HMOCS issue. Since then, the Cabinet Office have convened meetings with Treasury and FCO officials and are in the process of finalising a
innal paper, which they propose to circulate to the Secretary of
Attend
State and the Chief Secretary, copying to No 10.
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