§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will specify the type of aid made available by her Department to the Zambian Government.
§ Mrs. HartA £5 million grant made to Zambia in 1976 is fully committed. The greater part of it has been spent on essential imports of United Kingdom machinery. The Zambian Government have very recently accepted a further offer of loans totalling £9.26 million which will be used for further essential imports from Britain in the transport and agricultural sectors. In addition, aid funds amounting to about £2 million a year are being used to repay IBRD loans to Zambia for the Kariba North Bank power station project.
There is also a programme of technical co-operation for Zambia currently running at about £8 million a year which provides primarily for the supplementation of salaries of 1,000 British staff in the Zambian public service and also for the provision of a small number of fully funded experts and the training in the United Kingdom of about 150 Zambians a year.