§ Mr. Onslowasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing, in the case of each of the countries currently receiving British aid where claims in respect of nationalisation and expropriation affecting the property of British subjects remains outstanding, what sums are involved, when the claims first arose and how much British aid has been made available to the country concerned since that time.
§ Dr. OwenThe following is a list of those countries currently receiving British 763W aid where claims in respect of nationalisation and expropriation affecting the property of British subjects remain outstanding, showing the year from which the various measures date and the total of British aid made available since that time. The figures shown are cumulative totals from and including the given year, up to the end of 1975.
Bilateral disbursements £ million Country Year (gross) Afghanistan 1975 0.19 Algeria 1962 1.18 Bangladesh 1972 25.99 Burma 1963 3.29 Congo 1970 0.09 Costa Rica 1972 5.66 Ethiopia 1975 2.91 Ghana 1973 4.31 India 1967 466.97 Indonesia 1962 43.33 Malawi 1966 81.06 Pakistan 1973 14.49 Somalia 1970 1.20 Sri Lanka 1972 10.04 Tanzania 1967 17.76 Uganda 1972 11.77 Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen 1967 8.27 Zaire 1973 0.25 Zambia 1969 43.10 Insufficient information is available to enable the total of outstanding claims to be calculated, since for the most part negotiations are being conducted by the claimants themselves. I am not in a position to make public details of individual claims which are known to us.