§ Sir R. Russellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give further details of 91W the military assistance and police training provided for in the Supply Estimates 1971–72, Class II, Vote 2, Subhead D1, including the names of the countries benefiting from this help.
§ 2. Mr. KershawExpenditure on Military Assistance and police training, which appear under subhead D1 of the Foreign and Commonwealth Services Vote, can be divided into 5 heads. A description of each of these headings, together with the estimated total amount which will be expended during the current financial year is as follows:
Loan Service Personnel, under which the cost of loaning British service training teams to certain Commonwealth and Foreign countries are subsidised—£1,060,000.
Recipients under these arrangements currently inclde Malaysia, Singapore, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Jamaica, Mauritius and Ethiopia.
Military Training Schemes, under which the tuition costs are met to enable Commonwealth and certain foreign students to attend military training establishments in this country—£1,075,000.
A list of countries currently benefitting under this scheme is as follows: Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Singapore, Malaysia, Malta, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Fiji, Bahamas, The Gambia, Mauritius, British Honduras, Democratic Republic the Congo, Ethiopia, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Republic, Nepal, Afghanistan, Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Liberia, Finland, Turkey.
For administrative purposes the following are also included in this section:
£ Military training facilities in the United Kingdom for students from the Sudan and Libya 234,000 Royal Air Force team engaged in training the Kenya Air Force on the BAC167 aircraft 200,000 3. General police training for overseas officers in civilian police methods and the sending of British police officers on liaison tours overseas 65,000 4. Grant to the Police Training Committee in Kuala Lumpur towards the cost of providing training facilities in Malaysia for neighbouring countries in South East Asia 36,000 5. Advisory mission to South Viet-Nam: A police advisory mission concerned entirely with civil police training 69,000 Total 2,739,000