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permitting them settlement through the Special Voucher Scheme.

Unless we can given an assurance that the Special Voucher

Scheme will continue for UKPH from East Africa including, in

practice, those East African UKPH now in India, we can expect

serious difficulties with the Indian and East African countries

concerned.

6. All of these issues need further considertion. I should,

therefore, like to suggest that a meeting be held at Assistant

Under-Secretary level between the two departments, in the

first instance, to discuss the outstanding differences. In

these circumstances, I regret that it is doubtful whether the

Home Office timetable can be met.

7.

I am sending copies of this letter to the Private

Secretaries of State for Defence and for Northern Ireland, the

Attorney General, and (because there are also staffing and

expenditure implications for the Foreign and Commonwealth

Office in the introduction of a new Nationality Act) the

Minister of State at the Civil Service Department and the

Financial Secretary.

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