Navy
1 Frigate
3 Patrol Craft
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Costs of Proposed Garrison
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Army
1 Artillery Battery
1 British Infantry Battalion 4 Gurkha Infantry Battalions 2 Gurkha Engineer Squadrons
(1 in the Infantry role)
RAF
1 Helicopter Squadron
Works Services
Air Trooping
Notes: (1)
(2)
(3)
Stimates
1975/6 Estimates Prices
4.0
26.5
1.6
6.0
[2.27
TOTAL
(40.37
The reorganisation of the garrison will not be complete until 1977/8 when the fourth Gurkha Battalion is planned to replace one of the two UK battalions Additional costs in 1976/7 arising from this amount to about £3m.
The cost of a frigate refit in 1977/8 (£2.5m) is excluded.
The Navy figure excludes a share of the capital cost of new patrol craft, which are still under examination. If Bird class patrol boats are purchased, the total cost would be £4.2M which might be spread equally over the 5 years 1976/7 to 1980/81.
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