§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list the schemes administered by his Department to assist British exporters to gain a share of development projects overseas and give his latest estimate for the cost of each scheme in the current financial year.
§ Mr. Neil MartenThe only such scheme is the aid and trade provision, which is financed from within the overseas aid programme. The scheme is available to assist the financing of sound development projects, which are also of commercial and industrial importance for British firms, in developing countries to which we do not normally provide aid or where the planned allocation is already committed.
In the current financial year, I expect about 22 projects will have received some support from this provision, at an estimated total cost to the aid programme of about £53 million.