§ 16. Mr. Dalyellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what new special measures the Government have now taken to provide aid to developing countries from under-utilised resources in areas of unemployment such as Scotland, Merseyside, North-East England, West Cumberland, and Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI am examining a number of specific proposals to link additional aid to the less developed countries with surplus production capacity in this country, but I cannot as yet make any statement.
§ Mr. DalyellWhat has happened to the promise, given by the First Secretary of State on behalf of the Prime Minister on 18th December, that there was a sum of £10 million ready to be allocated?
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI have no further statement to make about it—[HON. MEMBERS:"Why?"]—and I have answered the Question which the hon. Member put on the Order Paper. We have much sympathy with the view he expresses for linking foreign aid to surplus productive capacity in this country, but I think the hon. Member himself knows enough about it to realise that it is a somewhat complicated matter.