TNAG-0128-FCO40-164-Development-aid-1969 — Page 116

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Draft Continuation Sheet

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for specific sectors of development, will diminish

the administrative load arising from the meticulous delanted requirements

for

attention to numperous small schemes under the

W.

existing C.D. & . procedures.

6. Issues of development aid will be made quarterly

on the pattern of existing C.D. & W. claims.

For

audit purposes we envisage a simple statement

suitably certificed to be rendered as soon as possible

after the end of the territory's financial year, and

in any case no later than twelve months from that

date, listing the projects in existence, the amounts

received from H.M.G. and the expenditure incurred.

Where projects run into second or subsequent years,

the statement should also indicate total issues

and total expenditures by projects to the end of the

The statement period covered by the statement.

should bear a certificate signed by the Financial

Secretary to the effect that British aid has been

applied only to the purposes for which it was supplied.

We should welcome

you may wish to offer

7.

If you have any comments on the proposals

outlined here we should be glad to receive them as

quickly as possible. A further communication will

be sent to you in due course notifying the final

proposals and setting out detailed accounting

arrangements.

8. It is the intention in the course of the next

year or so to publish a White Paper reveiwing the

history of the C.D. & W. Acts. It may be

necessary to seek information from you as a

contribution to this. If so you will receive a

separate communication.

9.

The contents of this despatch should be regarded

announc as confidential until the Minister has announced

bis intentions.

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