HL Deb 18 May 1981 vol 420 cc824-5WA
Earl Alexander of Tunis

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will provide a list of the aid pledged to Zimbabwe since independence, indicating for each donor country new pledges made at the recent donors' conference.

Lord Trefgarne

At the end of the Donors' Conference the Zimbabwe Government announced that the gross total of aid pledged since independence stood at 1,282 million Zimbabwe dollars (just over 2 billion United States dollars). This includes commitments made before or reconfirmed at the conference totalling 365 million Zimbabwe dollars. New pledges made at the conference totalled nearly 917 million Zimbabwe dollars. Of the total of 1,282 million Zimbabwe dollars, almost 900 million was for items on the conference agenda. The detailed breakdown of donor pledges is as follows:

Donor Gross Total Zimbabwe dollars Confirmations Zimbabwe dollars New Pledges Zimbabwe dollars
African Dev. Bank 39,763 39,763
Australia 14,604 7,650 6,955
BADEA 31,250 31,250
Belgium 8,000 8,000
Canada 33,334 5,556 27,778
China 17,500 17,500
Denmark 12,452 9,622 2,830
Egypt 1,250 1,250
EEC 120,000 12,139 107,862
Finland 5,167 2,667 2,500
France 71,430 35,715 35,715
Germany 62,321 30,714 31,607
Ghana 63 63
Holy See 12,500 8,125 4,375
Italy 23,125 11,250 11,875
Japan 3,080 1,960 1,120
Jersey 75 75
Kuwait 32,500 32,500
Iraq 1,875 1,875
Ireland 45 45
Luxembourg 1,969 94 1,875
Netherlands 16,233 6,126 10,107
New Zealand 174 174
Nigeria 12,440 12,440
Norway 11,250 1,250 10,000
OPEC 6,250 6,250
Saudi Arabia 3,125 3,125
Sierra Leone 56 56
Sweden 54,411 9,933 44,478
Switzerland 16,270 903 15,357
United Kingdom 177,031 140,454 36,577
United Nations 26,406 11,250 15,156
United States 172,633 32,008 140,625
World Bank 287,500 287,500
Yugoslavia 2,813 938 1,875
Commonwealth 2,926 1,565 1,361
TOTAL 1,281,821 364,904 916,919