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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.
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Jams
Richard Gozney, Esq.,
Within
WILLIAM CHAPMAN
Foreign and Commonwealth office.
HKD 340/2
T: DEC 1992
Mrs Banes Jans.
I have sent a
tel to HK
asking for their views.
The person
in the DTI
with whom No 10 spoke
this matter was Dominic Morris
head of Branch 1, Mechanicel
Engineering.
I have put Miss Jean Gray (orld in the picht woodrow
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