UURIININEN MELAL
16.UK ASSISTANCE TO DOMESTIC REFUGEE ORGANISATIONS
(a) Assistance to voluntary refugee organis: tions
Assistance to the voluntary refugee organisa
1.
D
Home Office during 1978/79 amounted to £343,000.
this assistance will have to cover not only the comm..
inherited from the previous year but also the costs
refugees from the Sibonga and Roach Bank and the bale
quota. A precise estimate of these extra costs is no
but total expenditure for the year could be of the ora
(an element of this will be central Government expendit
in making ready the reception centres at Sopley and Mor:
Lincolnshire).
2.
The cost of receiving significant aditional grou}
depends on whether their numbers, and the plasing of thei
requires new camps to be opened from scratch (as opposed
over a going concern such as an existing teachers' traini
If the refugees could be received in existing accommodati
of assistance to the voluntary bodies for dealing with (s
refugees in the course of a year could, on past experience
order of £0.5million but this can only be a rough estima“
figure could more than double if expenditure is incurred o
camps. This estimate is exclusive of social security pa
(which could be of the order of £.5-.6 million for 1,000 mi
a full year).
(b) Local authorities
3.
Local authorities in whose areas the latest refugee
Sibonga and the Roach Bank are being received will be aski
Government for assistance towards extra costs incurred by t
education and social services etc. It is not yet know wha
amount to.
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