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Commonwealth Office to nake suggestions for aid projects
particularly following visits by Advisers.
Schemes or proposals
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initiated by dependent territories should be sent by them to the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office for examination, with a copy for
innediate communication to the Ministry of Overseas Development;
dependent territories in the Caribbean should send a copy to the
British Development Division in the Caribbean, Barbados.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Overseas Development
(and the Development Division as appropriate) then consult
together on the schemes or proposals, and where the provision of
development aid is involved, the Foreign and Cormonwealth Office
nakes its views known to the Ministry of verseas Development which
is the Department responsible for processing applications for aid.
The Ministry of Overseas Development does not give effect to schemes
of development aid or other projects affecting development, wherever
initiated, without the agreement of the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office. This is necessary because of the Foreign and Commonwealth
Secretary's responsibility for the dependent territories and
because of the implications of development schemes for their
budgets, and their general financial and economic prospects.
IV. Budgetary aid and terms of loans
In determining budgetary aid for the grant-aided dependent
territories the Foreign and Commonwealth Office consults with the
Ministry of Overseas Development. Similarly the Ministry of
Overseas Development consults with the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office in fixing the terms of development loans because of their
budgetary and wider financial implications.
V. Aid for reconstruction programmes following natural
disasters
Governments of dependent territories should correspond
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