TNAG-2171-FCO40-3108-Special-quota-of-work-permits-for-the-Dependent-Territories-1990 — Page 57

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A 1. The Home Office would like us to agree now to drop the Dependent

Territories Work Permit Quota for Hong Kong at the end of the current year of its operation. How should we reply?

Recommendation

2.

I recommend that we should tell the Home Office that we would

prefer to reserve judgement on what the position should be at the

end of the current year; but that if it became clear, in the course

of the passage of the nationality package through Parliament, that

it would genuinely help to announce the end of the quota, we would raise no objection. That is a judgement which could be made after

Easter, after the introduction of the legislation.

Background

B 3.

C

The Home Secretary would like us to agree now to abolish the

Dependent Territories Work Permit Quota for Hong Kong. He sees it

as a possible concession to opponents to the nationality package.

The Employment Secretary would prefer to review the situation in a year's time.

BIFACY

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