The Hon Nellie Kut-Man Fong JP
Office of Members of the Executive
and Legislative Councils
Legislative Council Building
8 Jackson Road
Central
Hong Kong
Thank you for your letter of 15 May. I recall with pleasure our meeting in Hong Kong and on the flight to Peking. there was indeed an enjoyable one.
My visit
In your letter, you raised a question about expatriate civil servants in Hong Kong. I have consulted the Departments concerned
in Whitehall. As far as potential vetting problems are concerned, we would not consider service in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as constituting grounds for barring individuals from taking up a future Crown appointment. Expatriate civil servants in this position would not be ineligible to work in
the British Civil Service, nor would their dependants.
I hope that this is reassuring.
TICAAI
Sir Peter Middleton GCB
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