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announcement about the interim scheme will include a statement about

the number of vouchers to be issued, (although the permanent scheme will

have no declared quota) the reduced allocations for Malta and the Depend-

ent Territories, and any necessary changes in the criteria for the issue

of vouchers but, following the line taken in previous announcements about

changes in the voucher scheme, will not state specifically the division

of the available vouchers between categories A and B.

5.

Since the broad outlines of an interim scheme were provisionally agreed

by Ministers, there have been two changes in the relevant circumstances.

Firstly the DHSS now estimate that they will require at least 1300 vouchers

for doctors in 1971 compared with 581 issued in 1970. Secondly the FCO

have agreed that under the permanent scheme for the issue of work permits

the allocations for Malta and the Dependent Territories shall be reduced to

600 and 400 p.a. respectively. These factors have been taken into account in

formulating the scheme set out below.

THE PRESENT VOUCHER SCHEME

6. The maximum number of employment vouchers which may be issued each year

Ministerial approval was given in 1968 to the following distribution:-

is 8,500.

Malta

Dependent

1,000

To be taken up in either Category A or Category B

To be taken up in either Category A or B but not more than 300 to go to any one territory.

Territories

600

Remainder of Commonwealth

Category A 1,700

of which not more than 15% (in practice 300 pa) may go to any one country.

Category B 5,200

In July 1969 it was announced that not more than 2,000 wuchers in any one

year might be issued to doctors.

7. In 1970 the vouchers actually issued wore:-

Malta

846 (844 in A and 2 in B)

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