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4.

The policy adopted on the basis of these recommendations

has since proved inadequate and controversial insofar as it is too

narrow and unspecific to provide guidance for various more recent

problems.

It gives rise to the following questions:

(i) What is the definition of a territory which "can afford"? Is it any territory not in budgetary aid? (recommendation (a))

(ii) Ref recommendation (b), does "grant aided" refer exclusively

to budgetary aid, and not include development aid?

(iii) Does the qualification of "minor" in recommendation (b) have

a significance in that it is intended to exclude "major" capital

works? This would seem contrary to the rationale behind the

recommendation.

(iv) Who (FCO/ODA/territory by way of (?) capital or supple-

mentary budgetary aid) pays for

(a) new residences/rebuilding/major capital works

(b) day to day maintenance/furnishings and fittings (c) Governors' offices/equipment/communications/staff

(d) Governors' cars

(v) who is responsible for administering/executing building

works?

5. For the Governors' Conference in January 1989, WIAD produced

a paper entitled "FCO Administration of Governors' posts in the

Dependent Territories" which recognised the problems brought about

by the current lack of defined responsibilities and anomalies.

To address these problems, the paper proposed

"15.

For the remaining territories (Anguilla, BVI,

Montserrat, TCI and St Helena) the principle remains

that local governments should contribute towards the

costs, and local governments should be asked to bring

conditions up to the standards set. For those govern-

ments who cannot legitimately pay more for their Governors posts (and existing arrangements, current aid programmes, and the state of the local economy

give clear indications of this) it will be necessary

/to