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Dr Wilson
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT: TRAVEL IN THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1984/85
1.
In your minute of 12 April you asked for revised travel forecasts to be put forward to PSD.
2.
I submit the forecast for Hong Kong Department. Inevitably the estimated costs are much higher than those that figure in my minute of 15 March, because I have now attempted to forecast and cost the journeys to Peking and/or Hong Kong that might be necessary in connection with negotiations on the future of Hong Kong. This travel is still very hard to predict with any certainty, and I may have erred on the side of over-provision. If however it is eventually decided to establish an agreement drafting group which necessitates attendence from London (perhaps by a legal adviser) then my estimate could still turn out to be much too low. In all these exceptional circumstances I hope it would be possible to receive some form of special treatment from PSD.
3.
For the rest I have taken into account your minute to me of 15 March. I have included provision for two regular liaison visits to Hong Kong by the Head of Hong Kong Department 21 or his Assistant. In addition I have suggested a need for two
familiarisation visits tothe territory, one by the head of
the Future Section and another by a desk officer. I fear that if we do not put in a bid for at least one desk officer at this stage they will be entirely squeezed out.
30 April 1984
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