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good deal of more relevant information on matters
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covered by this Section of the Paper should be available
to officials both in London and in Hong Kong. Hong
Kong regularly supplies a large amount of documentation
on a wide range of current activities but this is
insufficiently selective and ill-focused on the matters
of particular concern here. Equally, we believe that
senior officials in Hong Kong would benefit by a more
regular flow of information which highlights the
political dimension here. There is need therefore for
a regular flow of informal correspondence on these
matters both ways. This should, in our view, by
regular consultations between senior officials.
Bi-annual visits to London by the Governor have already
done much to improve the exchange of views on major
policies and to help reach agreement upon them. A
greater use of technical advisers from the ODM by the
Hong Kong Government would be useful in providing an
outside view in the planning stages of future develop-
ments in Hong Kong in addition to professional consul-
tants from other sources which are already widely
employed.
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The second and indeed more important requirement is that the Hong Kong Government should provide regular
information on the implementation of the agreed
programmes including the related fiscal measures.
indicated earlier, there is a need both for fixed
targets and also for a degree of flexibility in imple-
mentation in the light of local circumstances. It
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