the proposed tranche of 1000 (a point which feeds in to the costs of the proposal) and how long it has taken on average in the past. It might be that if the paper focused a little more on long term evaluated objectives that the question of how the policy might be could be easier to frame.
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Turning to the Home Office expenditure on grants to volunteer
was I note that as long ago as 1982 it refugee organisations. policy objective
objective of the Home Office that voluntary organisations and local authorities should stand on their own in support of Vietnamese refugees, without special grants from the voluntary services unit (VSU). The aim was to achieve this by 1 April 1984, but this was not fulfilled and the commitment to VSU funding has been extended on a number of occasions most recently to around the end of 1988-89. You are now proposing a further 2 year extension of to funding and an increase of around 500 per cent in the level funding. I would be grateful if you would clarify to what extent been successful in the voluntary organisations in question have securing funds from other sources than the Home Office, what Home
and what Office support to these voluntary bodies pays for
your policy now is towards withdrawing from support of these bodies.
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I would like to reflect further on the case for additional funding in the light of this information. Without prejudice, however, any announcement of a commitment to funding beyond 1989-90 could only
be expenditure could be made on the understanding that the from within existing provision. If you intended to bid for policy commitment could of provision in next year's Survey the course not be announced until PES 1989 had been settled.
I am copying this letter to Bronwen Fair.
At Buch.
PH BROOK