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RE Adams Esq
HM Treasury
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EFP KB/781/1576/01
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Date
12 October 1982
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HONG KONG MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY "ISLAND LINE" EXTENSION
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12/2/10 P127/10
This project was considered by EGC last year when ECGD was authorised provide Buyer Credit support for Hong Kong dollar finance within a ceiling of £200m. aggregate contract value. Hawtin's letter of 30 July 1981 to Birch refers.
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We now know the full extent of orders to be placed in the UK, and I attach a full list. The total value of the UK part of these contracts amounts to some HK1153m (say £110m); ECGD's liability under the related Buyer Credits is HK$1974m (say £186m).
Yours sincerely
PP
R Holloway
CC
T JH Downing
G M Gowlland
BOE
FCO
Miss M T Neville-Rolfe DOT
G Leader
JRC Oughton
DRC Durie
ODA
MOD (Sales)
ME V Haggard
T Muir
J C S Priston A J Havelock
PEP
Do Env
DOT (OT4/2)
DOI (MEE) DOI (MEE)
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