Jungle Warfare School, Johore (South Vietnamese Troops)

HC Deb 28 March 1968 vol 761 cc333-4W

Mr. Dickens

asked the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will state the actual expenditure on the training of South Vietnamese troops at the British Jungle Warfare School, Johore, Malaysia from 1961 and the estimated expenditure for this purpose in 1968–69.

Mr. Healey

For the financial years 1961–62 to 1967–68 inclusive the total expenditure was about £173,000. The expenditure during 1968–69 is estimated at about £30,000.