§ Mr. William Clarkasked the Minister for Overseas Development if he will list 297W the sugar cane producing countries, supplying 1.4 million tons of cane sugar, which are in receipt of overseas aid from Her Majesty's Government, giving details of tonnages supplied and aid received in each case.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe information is as follows:
Country Annual quotas (commencing July 1975) agreed between the EEC and the cane sugar producers (metric tons of white sugar equivalent) Net official development assistance Calendar year 1974 (£000) Barbados 49,300 539 Fiji 163,600 2,823 Guyana 157,700 536 Jamaica 118,300 2,383 Kenya 5,000 10,111 Madagascar 10,000 117 Malawi 20,000 7,098 Mauritius 487,200 1,920 People's Republic of the Congo 10,000 25 Swaziland 116,400 3,106 Tanzania 10,000 864 Trinidad and Tobago 69,000 413 Uganda 5,000 Credit 591 St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla 14,800 2,054 Surinam 4,000 — Belize 39,400 1,861 India 25,000 60,585 1,304,700* 93,843† *This is approximately equivalent to 1.4 million long tons of raw sugar. †Total differs from the sum of the items owing to the effect of rounding to the nearest £1,000.