§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the President of the Board of Trade what steps he is taking to facilitate and develop passenger
90Wstantial contributions. Apart from advances from the Exchequer to the Commonwealth Development Corporation totalling £655,000 for investment in projects in Kenya and Tanganyika, which are included in the figure for loans, and the amounts made available to the East African Common Services Organisation (see footnote (b)), all the aid was provided on a Government-to-Government basis.
The objectives of this aid are to assist the economic and social development of the recipient countries. While the rate of economic progress has varied from one country to another, I am satisfied that our aid is in general playing a useful part. One of the first tasks of my Department however will be to review the United Kingdom's aid programme and policies with the objects of ensuring that these purposes are fully achieved and of helping the developing countries to obtain the maximum benefit from the expenditure involved.
The table also contains figures of the estimated number of Britons employed by the governments of the five countries at the date of their independence and today.
and trade communications between. Aberdeen and Northern Europe.
§ Mr. MasonIt is for the shipping industry to develop services of this kind according to its own commercial judgment.