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Thank you for your helpful review of the financial arrangements, etc., of the Defence Costs Agreement during its first year of operation contained in your letter CBF/406 of 6 April.

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It is disappointing that expenditure on Works Services has fallen behind estimate, because, originally, we understood that a large proportion of the 1976/77 capital programme comprised carry forward items from 1975/76 for which planning

I am glad and approvals were well advanced, that expenditure is now picking up because we attach considerable importance to the provision of

This applies adequate facilities for the garrison.

not only to the reprovisioning programmes at Sek Kong and JIMS Tamar but also to the other camps and facilities, especially those involving the Gurkha Field Force and its support cstablishments. there anything you think the Hong Kong Government can do to speed things up?

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The question of transitional costs, whilst the garrison was reduced to the approved level, was discussed as part of the negotiations, though in the end MOD decided not to press us to share any part of them. I note your estimate of the amount involved in 1976/77.

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I am very grateful for the way you are continuing to search for economies whilst, at the same time, resisting pressures from MOD to reduce the

With the number of locally engaged civilians. continuing upswing in the economy any civilians employed by the Services who become redundant should be able to obtain satisfactory employment without tog much difficulty, so that I do not think that you need to be unduly concerned about further redundancies. On the other hand, we should certainly wish to be

H.E. Lieutenant-General Sir John Archer, KCB,

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