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"Brief for the Secretary of State's Meeting with Civil Service Representatives

Issues of General Interest and Concern

I.

RIGHT OF ABODE

HMG's

right of abode

MrStone

enter

Wial,

announcement in late December of the

scheme has ended months of speculation

within the Civil Service.

27/1

2.

Many

staff associations have criticised the

limited but most have

reacted

in a

scheme as too

responsible

considerable

the scheme.

manner with their leaders showing

constraint in making

It is the

associations to see HMG

making public comments on

common wish of many staff

enlisting the assistance of

other countries, notably the Commonwealth and the

European Community, and they have asked to be consulted

on further details of the scheme. Associations of

disciplined services staff are relieved that there was

special mention of the

announcement.

disciplined

services in the

3.

Some staff

representatives

feel that civil

servants who qualify by

by virtue of the sensitivity of

their jobs should have been catered for irrespective of

the right of abode scheme, and it follows that these

servants and their families should not be counted

- civil