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of paragraph 5 as it now stands.

(d) Follow-up action. Mr Duff has rightly pointed out that

we shall need to set up a procedure to ensure that, having issued the despatch, matters are not simply left to stag- nate. He suggests that one way of doing this would be for the despatch itself to include a requirement that OAGS should, in January of each year, submit to the Secretary of State a review of progress during the past year in

constitutional advance in their territories. I am not sure that it is necessary to have anything as formal as this: in many territories, there may well be no advance from one year to another. It might be sufficient to give somebody in London (either HKGD or the appropriate geogra- phical departments) responsibility for reviewing progress once a year and producing revised versions of the Annexes to the despatch when appropriate.

4 January 1979

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R JT McLaren

Hong Kong and General Department

Cc:

Mr Duff, WIAD

Mr Snodgrass, SPL

Mr Shakespeare, MCD

Mr Daunt, SED

Mr Ure, SAMD

Mr Munro, EAD

Mr Wilberforce, Defence Dept.

Mr Posnett

Mr Pennock, Finance Dept., ODM

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/I agree