CONFIDENTIAL
ROLPA
M
Caut I No. Stewart
Financial Policy and Aid Department,
33
20 November, 1969.
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2. SNOT 1969
5/13
HICK 5/13
Aid Framework, 1970/71
Thank you for sending me a copy of your letter CF 371/414/022 of 27 October to Cecil Hodges with your proposals on the allocation of the additional €12.4 m. We agree generally but have some comments and reservations which I give below:
(A) Colonies
(i) You have proposed that an additional £1 m. be allocated to the Colonies. I take it that the £14.2 m. already specifically allocated to the dependencies (i.e. excluding their share of regional T.A. funds) in the existing version of the Framework would thus be increased to £15.2 m. and that the addition would be available either for development aid or for technical assistance, but not of course for budgetary aid.
(ii) As I understand it, you regard the £1 m. as subsuming the £0.5 m. annually in additional aid which Ministers have agreed should be devoted to the Caribbean. I should remind you, however, that the £0.5 m. is also intended to benefit the Associated States which are treated as dependencies for aid purposes.
(iii) There is also the question of the £1 m. which it has been agreed should be allocated over the next three to five years to the strengthening of the police forces in the Caribbean, which term again embraces the Associated States as well as the Dependencies.
(iv) The allocation of both the £0.5 m. and the £1 m. as between the dependencies and the Associated States has yet to be decided and the proportion of the latter which will fall for disbursement in 1970/71 will not be known until we have been able to discuss the matter in detail with the F.C.O. Police Adviser, who has only just returned from his tour of the Caribbean as part of Lord Shepherd's party.
But it is already clear that both these
E. C. Burr, Esq.,
Ministry of Overseas Development,
Eland House,
Stag Place,
London, S.W.1.
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