§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing in ranked order the contributions, as a percentage of their total aid budget, made by the
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London Edinburgh Northern Ireland Cardiff Number of resident commissioners 13 2 2 01 Total number of days devoted to oral hearings 54 12 9 9.5 Average number of days on which each resident commissioner conducted oral hearings 4.15 6 4.5 2.382 1 Over the period, four different commissioners visited Cardiff from London to conduct oral hearings as required. 2 This figure is reached by dividing the total number of days by the number of non-resident commissioners who sat at Cardiff over the period, that is 9.5/4. development assistance committee donor countries to Nicaragua, for the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Chris PattenNet official development assistance from Development Assistance Committee donor countries to Nicaragua in 1986 as a percentage of their total official development assistance was as follows:
Donor per cent. Finland 2.28 Sweden 1.61 Norway 1.44 Netherlands 1.10 Switzerland 0.86 Austria 0.65 Italy 0.57 Denmark 0.46 France 0.28 Canada 0.25 Germany 0.21 Belgium 0.12 Australia 0.01 United Kingdom 0.01 Japan 0.00 Source: DAC Chairman's report
The figures are based on bilateral aid to Nicaragua as a percentage of each donor's total bilateral plus multilateral aid. The United Kingdom's share of multilateral, mainly European Community, aid to Nicaragua in 1985, the latest year for which this figure is available, amounted to about 0.2 per cent. of our total aid; statistics are not available which would show the amount which other DAC countries provided to Nicaragua through multilateral channels.