§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Minister for Overseas Development if he will list in the Official Report the various ways in which direct or indirect assistance is currently being given or is projected for the next 12 months by Great Britain to the underdeveloped countries, naming the countries and quantifying the benefit of that assistance in financial terms.
§ Mr. PrenticeAssistance is given in ways best suited to the particular needs of recipient countries. Full details for 1974 of the countries concerned, the amounts disbursed and the forms of assistance provided are contained in "British Aid Statistics 1970–74", a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. In 1975, for which preliminary figures are now available, 69 per cent. of our aid was bilateral, 31 per cent. loan, 16 per cent. grant and 22 per cent. technical co-operation. The remaining 31 per cent. was distributed through multilateral agencies. The agreed net aid programme for 1976–77 is £515.8 million.