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FALKLAND ISLANDS

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1. Aid

There is no budgetary aid for Falkland Islands. Since 1973 over £8 million has been spent on a number of major capital projects (including the airport (£5.8 million), the Stanley to Darwin Road (£1.2 million up to 1985), School Ilostel (£0.8 million), Islander Aircraft and hangar (£0.3 million).

2. Technical Co-operation

The technical co-operation programme has been expanding rapidly:

a)

Supplementation

The Islands most vital services are staffed by expatriates on supplemented terms. The entire medical and senior nursing staff, the pilots for the Air Service, most of the teachers and senior members of the PWD some 40 people in all have their salaries supplemented by aid funds.

b)

Technical Co-operation Officers

There are 7 TCOS working for the Falklands at present, 6 of them as members of the Grassland Trials Unit. In addition a number of short term visits are made each year by ODA advisers as experts recruited from outside. On average 2-3 Falklanders are training in Britain at any one time.

3.

Defence

There is a Royal Marine detachment consisting of 2 officers and 40 men, stationed in the islands which is wholly paid for out of MOD funds.