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DECOLONISATION:

INFORMATION FOR MR FORMAN

1. Please refer to your note of 20 March covering Mr Morrice's minute of 19 March. You asked for the following information about the Falkland Islands:

(i) Aid

There is no budgetary aid. Since 1973 over £8 million has been spent on a number of major captial projects (including the airport £5.8 million), the Stanley to Darwin Road (£1.2 million up to 1985), School Hostel (£0.8 million), Islander aircraft and hangar (£0.3 million), a loan for small developmental projects (£0.3 million).

(ii) Technical cooperation

The technical cooperation 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 Cooperation Officers

There are 7 TCO's working for the Falkland at present, 6 of them as members of the Grass- land 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.

(iii) Defence

There is a Royal Marine detachment consisting of 2 officers and 40 men, stationed in the Islands.

It is wholly paid for out of MOD funds. The attach- ment's inter-island transport is provided by

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MV Forrest which MOD charters annually from FIG. ice-patrol ship HMS Endurance is normally in the area of the Falklands between December and April.

20 March 1981

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D G Davies

South America Department

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