TNAG-0429-FCO40-494-Programme-Analysis-and-Review-(PAR)-Future-of-Dependent-Terr-1974 — Page 77

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DRAFT SUBMISSION

To:-

Sir D Watson

Miss Lestor :

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Restricted. Unclassified.

Mr D Williams

Mrs J Hart

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ODM

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cc.

PS to S/S

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PS to Minister of

Overseas Dev.

PS to Mr D Ennals

Mr Hattersley

Lona Goronwy-

Roberts Mr Price PUS/FCO PUS/ODM

Mr C P Scott

leads of:- GGD

WIAD PDTD HKIOD DTEU

Caribbean (FCO Defence (FCO) Planning Staff (FCO) Communications Planning Staff (FCO)

'FRD (FCO) EPS (ODM)

Organisation Dept

(ODM)

Mr HCG Hawkins

(CPRS)

Mr EAW Bullock

Treasury

Mrs Featon

Treasury

Mr W Norton Treasury Mr D J Sleigh

(MOD)

(separate similar submissions)

REVIEW OF THE FUTURE OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

1. At the end of last year FCO/ODA officials,

with the assistance of officials from the MOD,

Treasury and CPRS, completed a detailed study of the costs to HMG (including aid and defence costs)

of HMG's continued responsibility for the remaining

18 Dependent Territories and 6 Associated States (now 5, as Grenada is independent). The study

included a review of policy objectives and the

assumptions on which these rest, and an examination

of policy options for the period 1974/78, with a

look ahead to 1983. The study was conducted within

the framework of the system of Programme Analysis. and Review (PAR) instituted by the last Government,

the purpose of which was to examine the cost-

effectiveness of programmes involving substantial

governmental expenditure. I attach a copy of the resultant Report.

2.

The intention was that the Report once completed should be submitted to Ministers collectively, but in the event this was not possible before the general

The Report, which is the fruit of nearly

election.

a year's work, was drafted within the framework of the PAR approach, which assesses costs and benefits in financial terms, and does not readily lend itself

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