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To increase UK influence on stability among neutral and non aligned nations and to help them help themselves.
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d.
To support and further the export sales of UK defence equipment.
The first 3 objectives fall under the heading of buying influence. In this the UK face increasing competition from many countries eager to win friends and gain influence through the medium of Service training. Countries whom we wish to encourage are, when necessary, targeted for assistance at " levels set and unchanged since 1982) either through the MOD- sponsored DPF (ceiling £5M) or the FCO's UKMTAS (about £15-£ 17M) Training in support of Defence Sales may effectively be
subsidized through waivers under the DSF (£5M), which has to operate within strict criteria limiting its use to the support of firm sales prospects only. The overall effect of our efforts to provide F&C training in terms of numbers and student/weeks since 1976 is shown at Appendix 1
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b. Advance notice of availability of training capacity to permit its use to be planned.
c. A charging subsidy policy which does not deter those countries we most seek to assist.
Throughout the studies into F&C training it has proved impossible to identify precise levels of demand to be satisfied to achieve the 4 objectives outlined at para 2. However there is a general consensus that:
a. Demand for places on 90% of courses can be met and is consistent with the four objectives. There is a
decline in demand for some of these courses.
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