Draft Continuation Sheet
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?Omit[] (DLP)
6.
(16)
It would probably be acceptable to all
concerned, and certainly to the authors
in geographical departments, if CPPs were
shorter than the maximum (but often exceeded)
12 -15 pages currently laid down. A revised
format (Annex 1) has been proposed to cut
the normal length to 4-6 pages plus a
statistical annex.
(c) CPPS should be submitted in draft to ODM
(a)
Ministers: it is unsatisfactory that broad
policy, as expressed in White Papers, should
not be endorsed by Ministers in its application
to important individual countries. Papers
would be submitted after initial drafting was
complete and before Whitehall endorsement was
sought. CPPs would only be resubmitted at a
later stage if other Departments tried to
insist on a major change of policy.
It is no longer considered justifiable to
produce CPPs for all the 120 odd recipients of
UK bilateral aid. Instead only the 40 or so
largest or more controversial recipients should
be covered, policy on the remainder being dealt
with in the Framework exercise, or as occasion
arose. This is considered to be the most
Ministers could cope with as an additional burden
to current work.7 The proposed list is at
Annex 2 to this submission.
I recommend that I should be authorised to propose to
other Departments concerned that in future CPPS should be:-
/(a).
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