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From: Suma Chakrabarti
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Date: 16 November 1993
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PS/Baroness Chalker
Private Secretary
ODA SURVEY SETTLEMENT AND SUB-PROGRAMMES
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2. Ministers now need to decide how to divide up the resources made available between the three ODA sub-programmes: the aid
budget (which will henceforth
aid to the developing
countries and assistance to eastern Europe/FSU), global environment assistance and overseas superannuation. This decision needs to be taken now because the figure for the aid budget sets the bottom line for the Aid Framework exercise now underway.
3. In taking this decision, there are three important factors to
be borne in mind:
i) savings of £5/6/5 million in the Overseas Superannuation
sub-programme which need to be deployed;
ii)
"new
the Prime Minister's pledge at Rio that the UK would provide
and additional" resources for the
replenishment of the GEF. Even if we backload our
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