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(c) Agreed;

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(e) It is precisely for this reason that we need to persuade the Home Office to deal with senior and potentially senior officials in a flexible way, for example by providing their dependents with a suitable assurance, so as to enable the civil servants concerned to defer, perhaps indefinitely, any decision about whether to acquire a passport under the scheme.

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