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B.

Chilen Fund. The Home Office would also be represented.

Note: The membership is designed to keep the Committee as small as possible

and to facilitate decision making. It is not intended to rule out, however, the possibility of individuals or organisations not normally on the Committee attending for particular purposes.

4.

It is proposed that the Executive Co-ordinating Committee would meet

regularly at fairly frequent intervals - perhaps weekly or fortnightly.

The Secretariat

Its

5. The central secretariat would be accountable to the Executive Co-ordinating

Committee, which it would service and whose decisions it would carry out.

precise size and composition would be determined in the light of experience; for

immediate purposes, however, it is envisaged that it would be headed by an

experienced administrator at about Civil Service Principal level assisted by two

other administrators (about Civil Service HEO level). In support, there would

be 3-4 clerical and secretarial staff making initially a total Secretariat

G

staff of about 7.

The Advisory Committee

6. It is proposed that the title of the Committee should be the Advisory

Committee on the Reception and Resettlement of Refugees from Vietnam. Its terms

of reference would be "to advise the Executive Co-ordinating

on general

matters affecting the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese refugees".

functions would be wholly advisory and the Executive Co-ordinating Committee

would not be accountable to it. At the same time, it is envisaged that this

body should provide a forum in which Government Departments, statutory agencies

and other bodies with an active interest in the reception and resettlement

programme can be kept in touch with progress and in which they can express

views on the nature of their contribution. The possible membership of the

Committee might include the major voluntary bodies such as the WRVS and the

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