Mr Griffiths
Reference
Mr School Pa XM 13/1 KM
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FROM:
K D Grimshaw
DATE:
12 December 1989
CC
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Clements, RMD Miss Marsden, HKD Mr Faint
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
me.
1. We spoke about your minute of 4 December to Miss Marsden, copied to You correctly assume that we would include provision for agreed aid to Vietnam in the ODA Vote, though I envisage this being subsumed in the overall provision for country programmes (subhead Al). We have also agreed that monitoring activities of NGOs associated with development programmes would fall to the ODA.
2.
My own discussion with our expenditure division confirms that the Treasury would themselves wish to agree a division of any extra money for 1990-91 between the Diplomatic Wing and ODA and to make the appropriate additions to PES programmes based on that they our best estimate of costs on the respective programmes.
3. We have begun to consider this internally, and I attach a copy of а paper which has just been submitted by our Eastern Asia Department (Mr Colvin already has a copy). You may wish to discuss the details of proposed expenditure with Mr Faint. If Vietnam comes to an arrangement with the IFIs and we provide programme aid we could spend up to £5 million in 1990-91. and in principle I would like to see this amount added to the aid programme (the total FCO requirement would probably then be somewhat more than £14 million). If programme aid is excluded, the 1990-91 requirement would be £2 million but, in this case we need to put down a marker that a further call on the Reserve may be needed in due course.
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K D Grimshaw
Finance Department
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