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MAINTENANCE OF GOVERNMENT HOUSES AND GOVERNORS' HOUSES IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1.
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Please refer to your submission of 5 October. You will see from the attached copies of the correspondence that the Treasury is not convinced of the need to use Vote 1C5 and Vote 2 funds for expenditure on the maintenance and the equipping of Governors' houses in non-grant aided territories.
We propose to return to the charge. The following points occur to ASD:
2.
(a) The amounts involved are very small: £28,000
in all for the initial requirements for the British Virgin Islands, the Falkland Islands and Montserrat. Future requirements would not go beyond those for regular Diplomatic Service posts of similar size;
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(if appropriate) there are no other territories concerned;
we do not propose any increase in expenditure: we intend to help OAGs at the expense of other Diplomatic Service requirements, which will have to be deferred;
the embarrassment referred to in ASD's letter of 16 December is not a matter of Governors' susceptibilities or diffidence in pressing their own interests. In a poor territory, the standards for Diplomatic Service officers agreed by Treasury, PSA and FCO might appear lavish to the local citizenry. To demand funds from the local budget to meet the full extent of a territory's responsibilities might give cause for local complaints and disaffection which, justified or not, could interfere with the execution of an OAG's duties;
for this reason it would not be appropriate to T
'consider providing a grant-in-aid to enable
the governments concerned to meet their responsibilities;
HKA 364/1
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