§ Sir R. Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how he has allocated the funds made available under Section 1 of the Colonial Development and Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1959.
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§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe following table shows the estimated unspent balances remaining in the various central and territorial allocations on the 31st March, 1959, the allocations of the new
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— Unspent balance of previous Allocation New Allocation Total £ £ £ SUMMARY Central Allocations … 10,299,000 16,900,000 27,199,000 Allocations to Colonial, &c. territories … 29,687,000 72,850,000 102,537,000 General Reserve … 5,514,000 5,250,000 10,764,000 45,500,000 95,000,000 140,500,000 ALLOCATIONS I. CENTRAL ALLOCATIONS (i) Research … 3,026,000 4,500,000 7,526,000 (ii) Higher Education … 2,725,000 5,000,000 7,725,000 (iii) High Technical Education … 1,260,000 650,000 1,910,000 (iv) Geodetic and Topographical Surveys … 955,000 3,000,000 3,955,000 (v) Geological Surveys … 810,000 300,000 1 110,000 (vi) Broadcasting … 593,000 1,000,000 1,593,000 (vii) Post-Selection Training for Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service … 230,000 775,000 1,005,000 (viii) Other Central Schemes … 520,000 1,675,000 2,195,000 (ix) Pre-Selection Training for Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service … 30,000 — 30,000 (x) Aeronautical Wireless … 75,000 — 75,000 (xi) Meteorological Services … 75,000 — 75,000 10,299,000 16,900,000 27,199,000 [...] ALLOCATIONS TO COLONIAL, ETC. TERRITORIES East Africa:— General … 246,000 400,000 646,000 Kenya … 898,000 5,000,000 5,898 000 Somaliland Protectorate (for three years) … 809 000 1,500,000 2,309,000 Tanganyika … 2,059,000 6,000,000 8,059,000 Uganda … 735,000 3,000,000 3,735,000 Zanzibar … 42,000 450,000 492,000 4,789,000 16,350,000 21,139,000 Central Africa:— General … 109,000 — 109,000 Northern Rhodesia … 648,000 1,000,000 1,648,000 Nyasaland … 642,000 3,000,000 3,642,000 1,399,000 4,000,000 5,399,000 West Africa:— Gambia (for three years) … 338,000 1,000,000 1,338,000 Nigeria:— Pre-Federation … 32,000 — 32,000 Federation … 1,656,000 — 1,656,000 Northern Region … 1,733 000 — 1,733,000 Western Region 902,000 — 902,000 Eastern Region 1,875,000 — 1,875,000 Southern Cameroons 830,000 — 830,000 Sierra Leone (for three years) 1,292,000 2,000,000 3,292,000 8,658,000 3,000,000 11,658,000 funds made available under Section 1 of the Act and the total sums available for expenditure in the period ending 31st March, 1964.
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— Unspent balance of previous Allocation New Allocation Total £ £ £ South Africa:— High Commission territories … … … 1,235,000 3,750,000 4,985,000 Atlantic and Indian Ocean:— Aden Colony … … … 18,000 1,000,000 1,018,000 Aden Protectorate (for three years) … … 563,000 1,000,000 1,563,000 Mauritius … … … 602,000 750,000 1,352,000 St. Helena and Ascension Is. … … … 69,000 200,000 269,000 Seychelles … … … 189,000 1,000,000 1,189,000 1,441,000 3,950,000 5,391,000 Mediterranean:— Cyprus … … … 553,000 — 553,000 Gibraltar … … … 241,000 550,000 791,000 Malta … … … 249,000 19,000,000 19,249,000 1,043,000 19,550,000 20,593,000 Far East:— Hong Kong … … … 218,000 — 218,000 Singapore … … … 204,000 — 204,000 North Borneo … … … 488,000 3,000,000 3,488,000 Sarawak … … … 721,000 2,750,000 3,471,000 1,631,000 5,750,000 7,381,000 Western Pacific:— Fiji (for three years) … … … 778,000 500,000 1,278,000 British Solomon Is. Protectorate … … 313,000 650,000 963,000 Gilbert and Ellice Islands … … … 37,000 250,000 287,000 1,128,000 1,400,000 2,528,000 The West Indies:— General … … … 550,000 — — West Indies University College Hospital … 801,000 — — Barbados … … … 256,000 — — Jamaica … … … 1,960,000 — — Cayman Islands … … … 31,000 — — Turks and Caicos Islands … … … 25,000 — — Trinidad … … … 721,000 — — Leeward Islands:— General … … … 67,000 — — Antigua … … … 259,000 — — Montserrat … … … 127,000 — — St. Christopher-Nevis … … … 349,000 — — Windward Islands:— General … … … 216,000 — — Dominica … … … 256,000 — — Grenada … … … 302,000 — — St. Lucia … … … 349,000 — — St. Vincent … … … 209,000 — — Air Services … … … 189,000 — — 6,667,000 9,000,000 15,667,000 Other Caribbean Territories:— British Guiana … … … 1,229,000 4,000,000 5,229,000 British Honduras … … … 351,000 2,000,000 2,351,000 Virgin Islands … … … 116,000 100,000 216,000 1,696,000 6,100,000 7,796,000 Total … … … 29,687,000 72,850,000 102,537,000 III. GENERAL RESERVE … … … 5,514,000 5,250,000 10,764,000 In the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Fiji and the Aden Protectorate a substantial increase in expenditure on development financed from Colonial Development and Welfare funds is clearly desirable. It is however particularly difficult to determine with any accuracy at this stage the total amounts of C.D. & W. funds that these territories could usefully spend during the next five years. The allocations to these territories, as shown above, have therefore been made for a period of three years only. What supplementary allocations will be needed to cover the remaining period of the Act will be decided later in the light of the progress which the territories concerned make with their development plans over the next three years.
The three-year allocation to the Somaliland Protectorate is necessary for an entirely different reason, namely the uncertainty whether the territory will remain eligible for C.D. & W. assistance for the whole of the period covered by the Act.
A single allocation has been made to the West Indies Federal Government instead of separate allocations to the Federal and unit governments. The division of this allocation will fall to be decided by the Federal Government after consultation with Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
Schemes for Ascension, Falkland Islands, New Hebrides, Pitcairn and Tristan da Cunha will be financed from the General reserve.