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'Costs or Proposed Gazicon

Navy

Army

•

RAP

1 Frigate and support (1)

1 UK Infantry battalion

3 Gurkha Infantry battalions 1 Gurkha Engineer Meld

Squadron (plus training wing) Logistic Support

1 Helicopter squadron and support

Works Services

Air Trooping

rounded to

£M 1.0.

1975/6 Estimatca nuisos

2.9

22.2

1.6.

5.0

1.6

:33.3

333

Notes

(1)

(2)

Includes refit cost (20.5a p.2.) spread equally over a 5 your period.

If the fourth Gurkha battalion were to move to Hong Kong when it is withdrawn from Brunel the cost of the proposed garrison would increase by 22.3 p.s.

Caree

(3) The costs of maintaining the present patrol craft (30.8 p.a.)

and the artillery battery 21.3m p.a.) would have to be rovne in full by the Hong Kong Government, if they wished to retain them.