D Mackay Esq HOA Division
Civil Service Department Old Admiralty Building LONDON SW1
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HKA 430/2
29 JUN 1979
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HKA 430/2
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CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR GOVERNORS OF DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
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Thank you for your letter of 12 June in reply to mine of 20 March about leave passages and the topping up of duty allowances for Governors.
2. We certainly recognise that in agreeing terms and conditions of service for a particular category of staff serving overseas, you must inevitably take account of the effect that will be created on other categories of overseas staff for whom HMG are in one way or another responsible. But in the present case, this seems to me a strong argument for agreeing to the changes in my letter of 20 March rather than for turning them down. Governors are now, as far as I have been able to ascertain, the only group of British officials overseas whose leave passages are not paid for from UK funds: staff on OSAS terms, Technical Cooperation Officers, Diplomatic Service officers and home Civil Servants working overseas are all entitled to leave journeys at appropriate intervals paid for by HMG. All our Governors have some staff in at least one of these categories working in their territories, and in some cases they have staff in all four categories. Similarly, the only people working over- seas whose jobs involve them in inevitable official entertain- ment, but who do not receive a fully adequate official entertain- ment allowance, are the few Governors who are not seconded members of the Diplomatic Service.
3. It would appear from a conversation that Chris Green in this department has been having with Kirk in your Division that we may have misled you by our somewhat imprecise use of the term "mid-tour leave". I believe that the term you would normally use for what we have in mind is "inter-tour leave", that is to say the leave that becomes due after an officer has completed the first tour of what is usually a two-tour posting. Governors certainly do not get any additional leave entitlement compared
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