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GOVERNMENT ACTUARY'S DEPARTMENT

STEEL HOUSE, TOTHILL STREET, LONDON, SW1H 9LS

Direct line 01-273 4330 Switchboard 01-273 3000

M J Upton Esq.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Dear Upton,

March 1978

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No 16

HONG KONG PROPOSED CONTRIBUTORY BENEFIT SCHEME

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You wrote to Gilder on 1 March about the proposed contri- butory benefit scheme in Hong Kong. As I told you on the telephone, we have been in direct touch with the Hong Kong authorities over this and I enclose a copy of a letter I sent to the Director of Social Welfare on 3 February. He has acknowledged my letter and says that it is being studied.

It seems clear that there is a great deal to be done before the scheme can be started, not least the consideration of

At the any comments that are made on the Green Paper. moment there is nothing we can do to expedite matters.

Yours sincerely,

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Lastu V. M. L.

L V MARTIN