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1. The British Government has recently reviewed the composition of the charges

which it requires to make against other governments when British Service personnel Care loaned to those governments.

2.

The British Government has always been conscious that these charges have only

Rezamel covered such elements as the current pay and allowances which 'an officer or atmon

received whilst on loan to a borrowing government. In assessing the charges no

persamel account hus hitherto been taken of the fact that an office or einen on loan to another

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Hei government may have received expensive and valuable training during his service which

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then have

enables him to carry out proficiently the duties for which ha-hes boen loaned to the

borroring government and the banefits of which accrue to the other government during

the period of the loan,

3. By far the most expensive kind of training which the British Services have to

provide for their personnel is flying training and, in recent years, this has been

becoming ever more costly. It costs now, for example, well over £100,000 to produce

a fully trained RAF pilot, In the course of its review of charges for loaned

persomel the British Goverment has come to the conclusion that it can no longer

forogo soeking reimbursement from other governments for an appropriate share of tho

cost to the British Government of the flying training which aircrew have received

during their service.

The British Government has therefore decided that after 1st April 1963 an elenont

to cover on an amortized basis flying training expenditure will be added to the charges

which are currently made for all "General Duties" aircrew loaned overseas.

5.

For a fixed wing or helicopter pilot this additional charge is currently asso33eã

at £5,000 per annum.

6. The charge has been calculated by assessing the total annual cost of the RAF

flying training organisation and dividing this total firstly by the number of pilots trainod

by the organisation in a year and secondly by the number of effective years of flying

service which the RAF hopes to obtain from a trained pilot. The resulting figuro

for the annual cost per pilot is of the order of £5,000 and this figure has thus been

solected as the fixed charge.

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