the EDF in 1976/77.
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18. I hope that you will be able to take on board a number of the suggestions which I have made above and to feed them into the machine before the new framework is prepared for the period up to and including 1976/77. We think it is important that this should be done if we are to be able to demonstrate to Ministers that we are applying the Adams' Committee recommendations. 19. There is one final point which I wish to put to you. It concerns the presentation of the aid framework. We suggest that it would be easier for readers including Ministers to under- stand what is proposed if tables were to be given placing all the countries mentioned in the aid framework into categories under four headings. These headings might be:
i.
A fast increase in real terms;
ii.
A slow increase in real terms;
iii.
iv.
A reduction in real terms.
UK aid remaining constant in real terms;
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20. I shall be back from leave on 23 October in/you want to discuss these points with me. are available while I am away.
Or Curtis Keeble and Peter Marshall
JR A Bottomley
10 October 1972
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