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TRANSCRIPT D; SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG

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SIR DAVID VILSON (CONTD) :

by the I have been told so far by Ministers and

Prime Minister that what i have asked for is not possible.

If that turns out to be the decision of the British

Government at the moment, then I would hope for maximum of generosity at the moment while people had time to look at something which went much wider, but maximum generosity at

the moment, not just for civil servants but for covering

other areas of the population as wel1.

How precisely it should be done rests, I think, first and foremost on what the political decision is and

the

*how precisely" follows after that by the experts.

MR. TEMPLE-MORRIS:

So what you are saying is that

Home Office into more productive avenues,

political decision?

we should unleash the

shall we say, by

SIR DAVID VILSON;

As productive and as generous as possible.

If the

then as a temporary

whole thing is not possible now, measure something which is as generous and as wide in the community as it possibly can be with a view later to going

on to something wider which might be

earlier point

dimensions.

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something

which had international