TNAG-2633-FCO40-3824-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-British-Nationality-(Hong-K-1992 — Page 10

Fur Woodrow, in Tel to Hk reg'd pl.

Mr Mann's 231/12 Mi Parnes-Jones

for actie pie

23/12

From the Private Secretary

CONFIDENTIAL

ET MON

OROIT

10 DOWNING STREET

Dear R zhan

LONDON SWIA 2AA

HKD) Ar Ricketts (100

You

raduce preene

draft reps aps-way.

PS In Goodla PS/PUJ

21 December 1992

Sur J Cons

proum

Thank you for your letter of 20 November to Stephen Wall, enclosing a draft reply from the Prime Minister to the Managing Director of the Bonas Machine Company.

I have submitted the draft to the Prime Minister with a brief covering note. I have also spoken to the DTI. They accept that, under the current system, this is the only decision possible. They do ask, however, whether the criteria should be changed. Apparently, this is not the first instance of skilled Chinese workers, such as engineers and technicians, applying for citizenship and failing. The personnel concerned, when they have been refused, simply transfer their skills to competitor countries' companies. Would you be willing to consider amendments to the points scheme to reduce the occurrence.

ims ever,

Years

Richard Gozney, Esq.,

within

WILLIAM CHAPMAN

Foreign and Commonwealth office.

нко 346/2

Mrs Bames Jones.

I have sent a

A

23/x11

tel to HK

asking for their views.

The person

in the DTI

with whom No 10 spoke

an

this matter was Dominic Morris. head of Branch 1, Mechanicel

Engineering. I have put Miss Jean Gray (ori) in the pictu

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