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14. The full budgetary costs of the forces, on the basis of current pay rates and prices, listed in paragraph 11(d) (h) are estimated at present to amount to about £14 million in a full year and this sum indicates the order of saving to the Defence Budget which would arise directly if we had no other use for these forces and were therefore able to dispense with them. The foreign exchange cost of these forces would amount to about £8 million at current rates of exchange, and spend- ing trends. In addition capital works costs for the extra
On the same basis battalion might amount to £2.25 million.
the corresponding budgetary costs for the forces stationed in Hong Kong and referred to at (a) (c) in paragraph 11 would be about £11 million in a full year, and the foreign exchange cost about £5 million. None of these figures takes account of the cost of support provided from units and facilities outside the Colony, which could not be assessed except on the basis of specific assumptions about the timing and scale of any reductions,
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