Defence budget

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's defence half-yearly accounts for 1962-63 and defence estimates for 1963-64, approved by Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur and Brigadier P R M Waterfield (1, 6)
• Tables on army capital expenditure and progressive expenditure on the Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sultan of Oman's Air Force (SOAF) up to 31 December 1962 (2)
• Preliminary figures provided by Brigadier Waterfield on SAF estimates for 1963-64 (3)
• Payment to the Sultan in accordance with the agreed minute of 24 August 1960 (4)
• Advance copies of the defence budget for the Sultanate in 1963-64 (5)
• Third quarter capital expenditure for 1962-63, approved by the Sultan and Waterfield (7)
• Receipt for the final installment of the repayment of a loan made to the Sultan (8)
• Visit by A J Read of the Department of Defence in Muscat to the Foreign Office in London (9)
• Request by the Sultan for the payment of the defence expenditures for August (10)
• Costs of reconstruction and the budget of the Defence Department in Muscat (11)
• Increased cost of the seconded accountant and breakdown of figures for 1963-64 (12)
• Purchase of flight tickets by Read with funds from the Department of Defence (13)
• Proposal for Brigadier Waterfield to produce two sets of defence estimates for 1964-65; and the advance estimates provided by Waterfield for defence spending in 1964-65 (14-15)
• 'The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Half Yearly Expenditure and Estimates, 1963-64' (16)
• Capital programme scheduled for completion and installments of capital funds (17)
• Request for a transfer of funds towards covering the recurrent budgets of the SAF and SOAF (18)
• Defence budget for 1964-65, including information on strength and equipment; and the reductions made by the Sultan to particular items submitted in the budget by Waterfield (19-20)
• Request by the Sultan for the payment of the final installment of defence expenditures (21)