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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
DRAFT SUBMISSION
To:-
Sir D Watson
Miss Lestor :
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FCO
Restricted. Unclassified.
Mr D Williams
Mrs J Hart
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ODM
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FROM
Mr Larmour
Telephone No. Ext,
Department
cc.
PS to S/S
In Confidence
PS to Minister of
Overseas Dev.
PS to Mr D Ennals
Mr Hattersley
Lona Goronwy-
Roberts Mr Price PUS/FCO PUS/ODM
Mr C P Scott
leads of:- GGD
WIAD PDTD HKIOD DTEU
Caribbean (FCO Defence (FCO) Planning Staff (FCO) Communications Planning Staff (FCO)
'FRD (FCO) EPS (ODM)
Organisation Dept
(ODM)
Mr HCG Hawkins
(CPRS)
Mr EAW Bullock
Treasury
Mrs Featon
Treasury
Mr W Norton Treasury Mr D J Sleigh
(MOD)
(separate similar submissions)
REVIEW OF THE FUTURE OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1. At the end of last year FCO/ODA officials,
with the assistance of officials from the MOD,
Treasury and CPRS, completed a detailed study of the costs to HMG (including aid and defence costs)
of HMG's continued responsibility for the remaining
18 Dependent Territories and 6 Associated States (now 5, as Grenada is independent). The study
included a review of policy objectives and the
assumptions on which these rest, and an examination
of policy options for the period 1974/78, with a
look ahead to 1983. The study was conducted within
the framework of the system of Programme Analysis. and Review (PAR) instituted by the last Government,
the purpose of which was to examine the cost-
effectiveness of programmes involving substantial
governmental expenditure. I attach a copy of the resultant Report.
2.
The intention was that the Report once completed should be submitted to Ministers collectively, but in the event this was not possible before the general
The Report, which is the fruit of nearly
election.
a year's work, was drafted within the framework of the PAR approach, which assesses costs and benefits in financial terms, and does not readily lend itself
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