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THE CPG AND CAREER CONTINUITY FOR SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS

How

sympathetic

will the CPG be towards the need

for

continuity

in the civil service,

particularly

in

relation to Principal Official-level posts?

2.

SUMMARY

The paper's main conclusions are:

(a)

The

CPG is not committed to a "through

train". It will want to make appointments to

senior posts to demonstrate the transfer of

sovereignty; and, in any case,

(b) The CPG will not use the same criteria for

for appointment to senior posts as

suitability

HKG.

3.

The paper recommends that HKG should recognise that

it will be

extremely difficult to get the CPG to accept a

"through train" for senior positions and, instead, should

focus on limiting the damage caused by the potential lack of

career continuity.

G.F. 316

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