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The Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary exercises these
responsibilities in consultation with the Minister of
Overseas Development in relation to (a) and in relation to
budgetary assistance and reconstruction prograrnes under (b),
as set out below.
6.
The two Departments work in close consultation in
discharging their functions in view of the inter-relationship
between development aid and all other forms of financial
administration and assistance. The following arrangements have been agreed between the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and the
Minister of Overseas Development: -
I.
Development Plans
The
As stated, the Foreign and Commonw.alth Secretary
remains responsible for the approval of development
programmes prepared by the dependent territories.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office makes full use of the
O.D.M. its economic planning staff and technical
advisers in the consideration of such programmes. The
O.D.M. for its part consults fully with the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office as to the amount and forms of
British development aid and other external assistance
and the two Departments work in agreement in these
matters.
II. Aid Allocations
The Minister of Overseas Development is responsibile
for making allocations of U.K. development aid but acts in
this matter with the agreement of the Foreign and
Commonwealth Secretary.
III. Individual Aid Schemes
Individual schenes are prepared initially in the
dependent territories, but it is open either to the
Ministry of Overseas Development or to the Foreign and
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