K K Kwok Esq.
Government Secretariat
Lower Albert Road
Hong Kong
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAF T
SCR (SD) 57/2/1162/89(92)
September, 1992
British Nationality Selection Scheme
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Thank you for your letter of August about the timing of the
second tranche. Our thinking is taking very much the same shape
as yours.
2. As far as I have been able to establish, nothing very
precise was said on the timing of the second tranche when the
1990 Bill and Order in Council were going through Parliament.
The formula used was that it would start "nearer to
to 1997".
Ministers said that the purpose of the second tranche was to
cater for those who would by then have moved into key positions.
They were concerned also that a proportion of places should be
held back for people who took up sensitive posts near the end of
the period.
3.
We tend to the view that, apart from the clear
administrative convenience, it is right to go for the beginning
of 1994. It does not seem to us that that is too far from 1997
or inconsistent with what was said about the second tranche being
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