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The attached draft has been agreed with the Treasury, the MOD and the DOE and although it is rather long I recommend that we should send it as it stands.
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2. The Treasury and the MOD feel very strongly that we should not lead the Governor to believe in any way that Ministers would be prepared to accept anything less than £8.5 million. In the submission to Ministers it was stated that "We shall report again to Ministers if the Governor is unable to obtain his Legislative Council's agreement to this." It is a pity that we could not get the MOD and the DOE to be more forthcoming about the £3 million for capital works. Virement between capital costs and the recurrent element of the contribution has however been one of the Governor's proposals from the beginning. Paragraph 2 of the telegram should therefore help him, at least to some extent, in his negotiations with the Unofficial Members.
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