Oral Answers to Questions — Leeward Islands – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 February 1949.
Mr Stephen Swingler
, Stafford
12:00,
9 February 1949
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what grants in aid have been paid to the Government of the Leeward Islands; and for what purposes during the past nine months.
Mr. Creech Jones:
No such grants have been made during the past nine months. The Colonial and Middle Eastern Services Vote this year provides for a grant in aid of £20,000 for Montserrat, and part or all of this may be issued before the 31st March. Some£150,000 has already been spent in the Leewards under the C.D. & W. Act, 1945, pending the receipt and approval of the Colony's Ten-Year Plan.
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