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8 February 1991

: PS/Lord Caithness

Mr McLaren

Mr Miles

Head of FED

HONG KONG : PADS

1. I attach a copy of the final version of the latest Options Paper

May I have this version back please. A copy should go, with suitable comments, to Mr Heap, BTC, but not at this stage to the DTI. The Chief Secretary briefed the Minister on 31 January stressing that the HKG had been guided by :

(a) a desire to exploit all the incremental benefits of

the scheme;

(b)

a determination that all options should be capable of moving to the full scheme;

(c)

the whole must be cost effective and financially viable.

2.

The four options are clear from the paper. I also attach a note given to us on financing. Sir David Ford noted that a number of possibilities had been discarded;

(a)

less reclamation for one runway only:-

i)

ii)

an extra sea-wall would be required; the plant would have to be marshalled a second time;

iii)

this would reduce the attractiveness to the private sector;

iv)

there would be great timing constraints on a second runway.

(b)

ALDAFR

No Tung Chung development:-

This would mean relying on commuters; a high risk proposition if the railway were deferred. The bus service would be expensive, there would be employment difficulties.

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