TNAG-2689-FCO40-3891-Hong-Kong-Her-Majesty-s-Overseas-Civil-Service-(HMOCS)-poli-1993 — Page 47

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12 November 1993

F N Pusinelli Esq Chairman

Overseas Service Pensioners' Association

138 High Street

Tonbridge

Kent

TN9 1AX

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

284

London SWIA 2AH

From The Minister of State

Dear blr Pusinelli.

HUA 233/1

1... 1993

(271)

Thank you for your letter of 2 November.

I appreciate the understandable concern within the Association that this issue is still not yet resolved. As I said to you in my letter of 15 March, I do not believe it would be prudent to try to extract parts of an overall package which would result in several interdependent decisions. This is because we see a clear link between the proposed sterling pension safeguard and the amendment to the SPOS Regulations. We therefore intend to present a single package of proposals to both your Association and the HMOCS Association in Hong Kong.

This does not mean that there has been no progress over the last few months. On the contrary, the package has been under intensive discussion by the Government Departments involved and, as a result, I believe we are now very close to reaching a final decision.

I will of course write to you again once any decision is taken.

рр.

Yours sincerely, Cevar

ALASTAIR GOODLAD

(Dictated by the Minister and signed in his absence by Trevor Adams, his Assistant Private Secretary)