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on the Aid Vote and that Ministers would have to decide in due course on which Vote to put 3(c).
The Treasury would like Finance Departments in both wings to spell out how much of the proposed expenditure could be met by savings from elsewhere in the respective votes. Mr Marr made clear, as regards the ODA, that he was expecting the response that funds were fully committed and that no savings could be found. As for the Diplomatic Wing Vote, Mr Lamont's letter of 9 August recorded Treasury understanding that £10.55 million for the three Vietnamse Boat People initiatives (emergency accommodation, regional processing centre and bilateral repatriation scheme) could be found from savings within Diplomatic Wing votes, particularly savings on UNTAG. They would need to know why we could now only find£5.3 million referred to in para 2 of the draft Ministerial letter. Could the £10.8 million we were now seeking from the reserve not be reduced by a further £5.25 million (the difference between £10.55 million and £5.3 million)?
2. Some of these points will need to be negotiated with Finance Department and the ODA. Please let me know if there is anything more RMD can do. We would in any case welcome a sight of a revised draft before it goes to Ministers.
7 November 1989
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Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mike Clauks
Mr Griffiths, Finance Dept Mr Ireton, ODA
M C Clements
Resource Management Department
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