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SECRET

COVERING SECRET AND CABINET MINISTER ONLY

CABINET LEGISLATION COMMITTEE: ARMED FORCES BILL 1991

Points to Make

No points of FCO interest in main draft.

(if raised)

Proposed additional clause would affect

Gurkhas, in whose future we obviously have a great interest. But no specific FCO interest in handling of this question of citizenship and right of residence in UK.

(if pressed) Would defer to colleagues' views on whether

additional clause should be included in this Bill;

would support consensus for its exclusion if others favour

this.

SECRET

COVERING SECRET AND CABINET MINISTER ONLY