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WHITE PAPER CONTAINING REPORTS OF ASSESSMENT

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1. I met today with Mrs Fewster of Nationality and Treaty Department and Mr Fred Howe and Ken Chadwick of HMSO (Ext 7432) to discuss the printing of the White Paper.

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2. I told them that we hoped to get a draft copy of the Assessment Office report on the morning of 23 November and a draft of the monitors' report on the morning of 24 November. The printers agreed that they could start setting the reports in print over the weekend and they could be in a position to give us proofs for correction on 26 November. They emphasised however that if they would be printing from telegrams we would need to edit them before they began setting them in type to indicate capital letters, italics and quotations. said in this scenario we would be able to check the proofs against the final reports that would be delivered by special courier on 27 November and have back final corrected proofs with them by close of play on that day. The printers would then be able to give us advance copies on 29 November and publish on the morning of 30 November. I said that we would have preferred to publish earlier if possible in order to give Parliament more time to study the reports before the debate in the week beginning 3 December.

Mr s Fewster pointed out that in the normal course of events white papers are laid before Parliament on Tuesdays and Thursdays and printed on Wednesdays and Fridays. It was therefore appropriate for us to publish the White Paper on Friday 30 November. To publish it on the Thursday would be unusual. The printers emphasised that the time taken to print the report would of course depend on its length. I suggested it would be about twice as long as the previous White Paper.

3. We therefore need to put the following points to Hong Kong when the Secretary of State has agreed to publication of the White Paper in the proposed format:

(a) can they confirm that the reports will reach us deskby 0900Z on 23 and 24 November?

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Can they advise us on the probable length of the reports?

(c) Will the reports contain tables, charts or art work?

(d) Will final reports arrive by 10.00 am on 27 November?

(e) We can tell them that we propose to classify the reports confidential until publication.

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