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You seem to believe

to believe that civil servants would be

disadvantaged vis-a-vis their private sector counterparts

because they earn less and lose out on UK connections.

civil servant much а

can

assure

you

that how

I

earns is

irrelevant for the purpose of the Scheme. The points

system under the Scheme does not involve any comparison of

salaries between civil servants and private sector

personnel, or among civil servants in different grades and

ranks. It is also not true that civil servants would lose

out on UK connections. Specifically under the law, Crown

service under the Government of the UK or Hong Kong scores

UK connections points.

I note your points that some civil servants have

refrained from applying after an assessment of

of their own

chance of success, and that some of those

those civil servants

who have applied may find themselves in an over-subscribed

occupational group. The pragmatic approach of assessing

one's chance of success before applying, I believe, occured

equally in the civil service and in the private sector

people. Similarly, the situation of an applicant finding

himself in an

civil service.

over-subscribed group is not unique to the