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touch on this, and that we take a further check on the components of your estimate and on the likely phasing of costs, before I look at the 1990-91 Main Estimates submission.

6

I presume that the review during 1990 of the arrangements for mandatory repatriation, including the expenditure implications, will take place as soon as there is sufficient experience of the working of that scheme.

7 I am grateful to you for setting out your projections to 1992-93 of possible expenditure on Vietnamese Boat People. I agree that provision for years beyond 1990-91 should be discussed in the 1990 Public Expenditure Survey.

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I

am

copying this letter to members of OD(K), to Lynda Chalker, and to Sir Robin Butler.

Your sincerely

Carys Fran

NORMAN LAMONT

approved by the chief secretary

and signed in his absence