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The issue is whether powers of appointment should overlap, eg should CS have the power to appoint to the positions for which SCS has that power as
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positions. It has arisen in the context of changes to reduce the Secretary of State's powers of appointment. 3. The prevent Civil Serice Regulations (show powers of appointment defined without any overaps. Hong Kong now tell us that in fact the CSR are wrong, since the more senior officers have always had all the powers of their juniors. They value the flexibility this provides and want to confirm it in CSR in the new simation.
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4. My only concern is that, checks and balances of bureaucratic
procedwes could be useful after 1997
making it more a Reking stooge Prácipal difficult (because more visible) for Official to practise Croneyion throughout the public service. Hong Kong say you cannot stop a determined centralizer and iniply it is not worth trying to slow him down.
I am not convinced by Hong Kong's arguments but do not think it worth pursuing the matter any further. I recommend that we agree, as Miss Williams and in stone have suggested, to approve Hong Kong's preferred approach. If so Miss Williams in her draft reply might gently take note that the prevent CSR do not reflect present realities!
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