TNAG-2689-FCO40-3891-Hong-Kong-Her-Majesty-s-Overseas-Civil-Service-(HMOCS)-poli-1993 — Page 31

Letter to Chief Secretary

ODA SURVEY SETTLEMENT AND SUB-PROGRAMMES

Now that we have

Thank you for your letters of 8 and 12 November. agreed the overall Survey settlement for ODA, I should like to set out my proposals for how this should be divided between our three

sub-programmes.

There are three issues with which we must deal:

the deployment of the expected savings on the demand-led Overseas Superannuation sub-programme of £5/6/5m;

the handling of the Prime Minister's Rio pledge that the UK would provide "new and additional" resources for the replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Funds for this will begin to be required

be required from 1995/96;

and

the handling of the Hong Kong HMOCS pensions and compensation package which I have proposed should fall to the Overseas Superannuation sub-programme (my minute to you of 9 November and your reply of 15 November refer).

Funds for

for this package will begin to be required from

1996/97.

Taking account of these factors, I propose the following distribution of the settlement between ODA's sub-programmes (with the change on the pre-PES figures shown in brackets):

1994/95

Total Baseline

2308 (0)

£m

1995/96

2363 (0)

1996/97

2363 (0)

O/W

Aid Budget

2182 (+5)

Global Environment

8 (0)

2230 (-2)

16 (+8)

2216 (-16) 24 (+16)

Overseas

Superannuation

118 (-5)

117 (-6)

123 (0)

Under this proposal, we would: