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expiry it will be possible to provide development aid,
nå/or
in the form of grant and/or loan, to the remaining
dependent territories and to the Associated States
under the Overseas Aid Act 1966. This Act will
therefore become the authority for such aid after
31st March 1970, actual issues in any year being
under the authority of
provided, as now,
annual
Votes . The change in legislative authority
signifies no change in aid policy, and the Ministery
of Overseas Development will take an early opportunity
to make a statement in Parliament to the effect that
although the C.D. & W. Acts are being allowed to
expire, H.M.G. still regard the reasonable needs of the
remaining dependencies as a first charge on the aid
funds which they are able to meke available.
3. Among the reasons for allowing the C.D. & W. Acts
to expire is the fact that with their expiry it will
be possible to get away from the accumulated
administrative procedures which have grown up under
them and which at present govern the provision of
development aid to dependencies and Associated States.
It will still be necessary of course to require
adequate information before H.M.G. can enter into
commitments to provide funds for development.
4.
The
following procedures are based on those current in
relation to independent countries, modified in certain
respects to take account inter alia of the need if
possible to reduce the present administrative burden.
The intention is however by stating now what information
is required to obviate so far as possible the delays which
ensue from enquiries after an application has been
unavoidable
received. It is inescapably true that the quality and
character of information required by all aid donors and be
is being refined, largely as a result of the pressures
on available funds but Iam inviting your comments on
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