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and the Pacific and possibly to the West Indies and the Seychelles
too.
B.
RESOURCES NEEDED BY THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
4. One new major development in HIG's attitude towards the
provision of administrative staff for Dependent Territories has
only emerged in the last three months, viz. that we are now
examining sympathetically the proposal to second, possibly in
increasing numbers, hone-based P. and P. FCO staff for service
in Dependent Territories. We are also considering secondments
from the Administrative Services of Dependent Territories to
Whitehall.
5. To quantify the numbers and costs of appropriate secondments
each way for the whole of the Dependent Territories is a major
task on which a lot more work, both in London and in the
territorics, remains to be done.
Tentative figures for the
B.S.I.P. drawn up after consultation with Mr. Waller last month
suggest that about a dozen of the 80 or so administrative posta
in the W. Pacific might be filled by Diplomatic Service officers
during the middle years of the seventies.
6. These figures cannot usefully serve as a basis for a further
projection because the problems of the other territories are
different in scale and character.
7. It is thus not yet possible to say how many secondments
might be needed over the next decade, furthermore details of who
will pay what are not yet worked out, though we must recognise
that two-way secondments will involve consequential financial
adjustments. There is also the need to train up locally
recruited Administrative Officers.
At least the following will
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