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contribute towards the costs of maintaining the Governors and their
posts, and local governments should be asked to bring conditions up
to the standards set.
For those governments who cannot legitimately
pay more for their Governors posts (and existing arrangements, current aid programmes, and the state of the local economy will give clear indications of this) it will be necessary to top up with FCO
support (as is already done in many cases on an irregular basis).
16.
This topping up should be met by
1) ODA for those territories in receipt of budgetary aid
(TCI and St Helena)
and
2) DW
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for the rest.
Salaries and Allowances
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P.
17.
The attached chart indicates a wide variation in Governors
salaries and allowances. We are increasingly (but not exclusively)
looking to the Diplomatic Service to fill Governors posts. It is
therefore important to standardise Governors salaries and to have an
agreed method of calculating allowances.
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to
It disrupts the administration of the Service for a DS officer
Governors
receive a salary outside the existing salary structure when posted
to a DT as opposed to a colleague who is posted to an Embassy/
Consulate-General/mini mission. Salaries should therefore be set
within the existing grade bands. DS officers appointed as
should receive the appropriate incremental point. Those recruited
from outside should receive a negotiated salary within the DS salary
band.
(Consideration will need to be given to how Governors'
salaries fit into the local civil service pay structure. In most
DTs the Governors' local salary is calculated accordingly.
It may
not be possible to accept that the Governors' post should receive
the top Civil Service salary in the territory.) Adjustments to
salaries should be made
the time when Governors (or other staff)
are changed and not to existing contracts.
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