TNAG-0573-FCO40-706-Monitoring-of-progress-made-on-planning-paper-on-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 116

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HONG KONG: PLANNING PAPER

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Of the Your minuting on my note of 21 October attached. group present at the Governor's Committee on 6 August, only six (the Governor, the Acting Chief Secretary, Secretary for Home Affairs, Secretary for Social Security, the Secretary for Admin- istration and the PA) have actually had access to the Planning Paper. In addition to these to the best of my knowledge only the Chief Secretary and the Deputy Secretary for Administration have had, or will have, access to the Paper itself. You will see from what the Governor said to his Committee that several items included in the Planning Paper, e.g. minimum wages, were not mentioned at that meeting.

2. I am myself sure, particularly since my discussions in Hong Kong that they (the ten or so who have had access to the Planning Paper) understand completely that the long-term aim is for a programme of non-means tested benefits. The Governor, with our agreement, is deciding his own tactics for his time-table of telling his other senior officials and ExCo.

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