§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the industrial dispute which is holding up publication of the unemployment figures for the West Midlands.
Net official flows from the United Kingdom to developing countries from 1963-73, expressed also as percentages of GNP, were as follows—figures for 1974 are not yet available:
£ million 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 Official Development Assistance (ODA) … 142.4 172.3 168.8 173.3 179.2 178.0 Other Official Flows (OOF) … — — — — 0.7 0.6 Total Official Flows … 142.4 172.3 168.8 173.3 179.9 178.6 Official Flows as percentage of GNP … 0.47 0.52 0.47 0.46 0.45 0.41
£ million 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973* Official Development Assistance (ODA) … 178.1 188.3 235.1 245.0 245.9 Other Official Flows (OOF) … 0.5 0.6 0.7 1.9 16.6 Total Official Flows … 178.5† 188.9 235.8 246.9 262.5 Official Flows as percentage of GNP … 0.39 0.37 0.42 0.39 0.37 * The increase in other official flows and the near-standstill in official development assistance in 1973 was in part attributable to a tightening by the DAC of the definition of the latter. † Rounded.