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FROM A R Paul

Hong Kong Department

DATE:

1 March 1990

CC:

Private Secretary

Mr McLaren

Mr Lidington

DEPENDENT TERRITORIES WORK PERMIT QUOTA

A 1. The Home Secretary has written to the Employment Secretary

confirming his wish to end the Quota for Hong Kong. He proposes

that an announcement should be made of this fact later this year,

after the passage of the Hong Kong Bill.

2.

I do not propose that we should intervene further. But I am a

little surprised that the Home Secretary should want to delay an

announcement until after the passage of the Bill since we were

given to believe that the reason for abolishing the Quota was

precisely in order to smooth the passage of the Bill. It now seems

that this was not the main motivation.

ARPan

A R Paul