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Mr Burns

PS/Lord Caithness

PS/Mrs Chalker

Private Secretary

CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: A R Paul

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 20 August 1990

cc: Mr Blatherwick

Mr McLaren

Mr Chase, RMD

Mr Griffiths, Finance Dept

Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers

Mr Fish, ODA

Mr Stanton, ODA

Mr Kerby, ODA

Mr Rew, H M Treasury

HONG KONG: COMPENSATION/INCENTIVE SCHEME FOR MEMBERS OF HER

MAJESTY'S OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)

PROBLEM

1.

Ministers agreed in 1988 that there should be a Compensation/

Incentive Scheme financed by HMG for members of HMOCS in Hong Kong. How should we proceed?

RECOMMENDATION

2.

I recommend that:

a) Ministers endorse the conclusions, reached by their

predecessors in 1988, that HMG has an inescapable obligation to

WEDABH/1

CONFIDENTIAL