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year by year basis. I am considering whether it might be possible to use some modification of PERT (Programme Evaluation and Review Technique) to ease the monitoring process. I attach as Annexes A and B to this submission specimen check lists which might be used.
3. The check lists will also usefully include any related forward planning by the Hong Kong Government not specifically provided for as a result of the Planning Paper.
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Some system for checking the relevance of the programmes detailed in paragraphs 2 and 3 will be necessary also. The programme in the Planning Paper may well, during the next 5 years, be necessarily modified by external events and by the effects of reforms and plans outside the purview of the Planning Paper itself. Such modifications will call for further consultation between the Hong Kong Government and the FCO.
5. The monitoring process will require the closest possible liaison with the Governor. Much of this will, of course, be done through correspondence at Under-Secretary or Head of Department level. I trust, in addition, that the Governor will continue to visit London twice a year and that I will be allowed to visit Hong Kong twice a year also. In addition, there should be at least one visit a year by each of the Desk Officers concerned with Hong Kong and by one or other of the superintending Under-Secretaries. Regular visits to Hong Kong by specialist advisers such as the Overseas Labour Adviser and the Economists will also play an important part in the monitoring process.
6. "It will be primarily for the Governor to convince his officials of the desirability and of the inevitability of the programmes which have been agreed. However, we too should play our part. This largely through the reciprocal visits mentioned above, combined with the greatest possible efforts to receive senior officials of the Hong Kong Government during their annual leave plus, as necessary, special ad hoc visits by the heads of those departments in the Hong Kong Government which will be particularly concerned with putting the measures in the Planning Paper into effect, e.g. the Commissioner of Labour, the Director of Social Welfare and the Director of Education.
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