CONFIDENTIAL
PAPER FOR THE MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AID
Control of Expenditure on Military Aid
i.
The Official Committee on Military Aid has agreed proposals put forward by the Treasury for the control of expenditure on military aid, and now seeks approval of the proposals, which are as follows
I:
Military Technical Assistance
An allocation of expenditure on "military technical assistance"
2.
For years from 1968-69 onwards there should be an allocation, fixed for a period of some five years ahead under the public expenditure forecast procedure, and subject to the normal provisions for annual review, for what may broadly be described as "military technical assistance". Under this allocation would fall expenditure on the training of overseas military personnel in the United Kingdom, and assistance towards the cost of loan of British Service personnel serving abroad. In terms of the 1967-68 Estimates, the items which would be comprised within the proposed allocation are -
Class II Vote 2 (Foreign Services)
Subhead D.1 (part) Support for Trucial Oman
1967-68 Estimates
(£000 net)
Scouts, and counter- subversion, Persian Gulf
269
D.2
Military and police training of foreign nationals
411
D.3 (Part) Military assistance for
CENTO (training and
94
secondment)
D.4
Military assistance for Sudan
125
D.5
Civil Defence training for CENTO
2
D.6 (part) Military assistance to Nepal (training) (say)
Class II Vote 4 (Commonwealth Services)
10
Subhead D.1
Military assistance and police training
3,068
D. 3(2) (part)
India: military aid
(training)
42
D. 5(2)
Kenya: defence aid (training)
31
4,052
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