CODE

18-78

SS 10/76

Mr Milton

Moton

Mr Stewart

23/6

Reference

P/A 110/6

HKG 025/1

Dught to issue

Drufl-to

Jeels

18

PQ: THE COST OF ADMINISTERING THE DEPENDENCIES

1.

I attach a draft submission and Answer to Mr Grocott's question, and by way of further explanation I would add that the figure was taken from a paper prepared for the CPRS last year (HX 400/548/1 Flag A).

2.

Although the table excludes Hong Kong, this in fact only refers to the Defence and Aid figures (over 90% of the total). The figures in PAR from which the Administration figure was culled make no mention of excluding Hong Kong (flags B and C) and I therefore think the make a suitable basis for a reply to this P

22 June 1977

Трета

D C Levoir

Hong Kong and General Department K270

233-4072

Enc

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