Appendix 26
Letter from the Parliamentary Clerk, Department
of Health to the Clerk of the Committee
Former Child Migration—UK Financial
Support for
the maintenance of children in the receiving country
(CM 129B)I regret that at the oral evidence sessions last night
David Matthews made a mistake when asked about financial assistance
from the UK towards maintenance of children in the receiving country.As
Mrs Wise indicated there was such financial assistance. In fact,
the Department of Health's Memorandum to the Committee—page
52, paragraph 9 (an extract from the Moss Report), and paragraph
3 on page 56 (an extract from the Ross Report)—drew attention
to these arrangements. Please could you draw this correction to
the Committee's attention.The former Home Office files that we
have looked at contain only a few references to such payments.
We guess that there must be some other files that contain details
of such expenditure but not know where they are.The Ross Report
notes that in 1956: "The expenditure of the UK Government
on the maintenance of children in Australia runs now to just over
£40,000 a year." This was stated in our Memorandum to
the Committee on page 56, paragraph 3.Once again, apologies for
the inaccuracy.
17 July 1998
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