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say what your organisation would like to see done. For example,

do you want more commercial staff in Indonesia and fewer staff

in Malaysia? Would you like to see a greater concentration of

effort in the Philippines or in Thailand? I lay it open for you

so you can tell us what you wish to see done.

(Mr Checketts We have not rehearsed or discussed

that matter in detail and you are raising it in some detail

there. I think what we would like to do is to be given an

opportunity of giving some thought to it in detail, when the

changes are being proposed or when the numbers of staff are being

assessed. We certainly, this morning, could not answer that

question in general.

It is

163. It would be convenient if you could let us have a

paper in on that. If you could let us have that paper some time

before the middle of October it would be helpful to us.

what your desires are about in increase or decrease in the

commercial staff at our various posts. You may not have any.

(Mr Checketts) Yes. There is a fair amount of work

involved in this if we are going to look at it in that depth.

We will reconsider what we have put in and I will not

necessarily promise any more information ta that. I would

like to see what comes out of discussions and whether what

comes out is worthy of reporting to you and if so we will put

that to you.

Chairman;

There are some problems about large projects.

Mr Mikardo

164. Do you think that the Departments and agencies of

Her Majesty's Government are sufficiently supportive in respect

of bids British companies put in for specially large projects?

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