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FCS/93/0.6.6
CHIEF SECRETARY
29. - 1993
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Mr Ricketts, MKD
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HKA 23/5/1
HONG KONG: HMOCS ARRANGEMENTS
1. Thank you for your letter of 3 February.
2. The two White Papers which set out the terms and conditions for HMOCS officers leave us with real obligations.
In all 42 HMOCS territories, HMG have made arrangements to
provide these officers with full compensation and full pension
protection. This has been done without exception. That is the standard against which our proposals will be judged, in
the House and if HMOCS officers take us to judicial review
in the Courts.
3. You propose in effect that we should treat Hong Kong HMOCS
officers worse than their predecessors in other territories
because of the public expenditure climate in the UK and
because they receive salaries and pension benefits which are better than their UK counterparts.
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But:
there is no precedent for taking into account UK salary and pension levels in determining arrangements for
HMOCS. This is in spite of the fact that pension earning rates for colonial civil servants have always
been better than their UK counterparts, and we have never
sought to penalise those in the colonies whose salaries
were also higher.
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