§ Sir Patrick Wallasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will estimate the amount of private enterprise aid going to the Commonwealth and foreign nations, respectively.
§ Mr. RaisonTotal net private flows to developing countries in 1984 was £1,420 million, of which £105 million was provided as grants by voluntary agencies. Statistics which show net private financial flows to Commonwealth countries separately from those to other developing countries are not available.
§ Sir Patrick Wallasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the percentage of Government and private enterprise aid in relation to the United Nations target.
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§ Mr. RaisonIn 1984 Britain's performance against the UN one per cent. target combined official and private flows to developing countries was 0.89 per cent. For many years prior to this Britain had exceeded the UN target.
§ Sir Patrick Wallasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give a breakdown of the distribution of governmental overseas aid by category including United Nations agencies, European Economic Community contributions, referred emergency contributions, bilateral and others.
§ Mr. RaisonGross public expenditure on overseas aid was £1,311 million in 1984. This figure can be broken down as follows:
1984 UN agencies 65 European Community 226 World Bank Group 197 Other multilateral 43 Total multilateral 531 Bilateral country programmes Financial aid 397 Technical co-operation 138 Other bilateral 210 Total bilateral 745 Administrative costs 35 Total gross public expenditure 1,311 Amounts for emergency aid and disaster relief are included in both the multilateral and bilateral figures above.
A more detailed analysis and commentary is contained in "British Overseas Aid 1984", a copy of which is the Library of the House.