§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what is the amount of bilateral debt owed by each member of the Southern African development co-ordination conference; to which countries, including the United Kingdom, the debt is owed; and what provision for debt relief for Southern African development co-ordination conference countries has been agreed;
(2) what is the amount of multilateral debt owed by each member of Southern African development coordination conference; to which institutions the debt is owed; and what provisions for debt relief for Southern African development co-ordination conference countries have been agreed;
(3) what is the total debt for each member of the Southern African development co-ordination conference.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe following table sets out the amounts of bilateral, multilateral and total external debt 201W owed by each member of the southern African development co-ordination conference at end December 1988 (the latest figures available). The table shows bilateral debt owed to all OECD countries. Details of the individual claims of bilateral creditors other than the United Kingdom are not available.
The United Kingdom has outstanding aid loans to Swaziland and Zambia only, of £10.9 million and £56 million respectively.
The details of the United Kingdom's trade credit claim to individual countries are matters of commercial confidence, but the combined total for all SADCC countries is £493,095,000.
$ million Multilateral debt Country Official bilateral debt to OECD countries IMF World bank African development bank Total external debt Angola 1,506 — — 135.15 2,121 Botswana 513 — 161 316.49 707 Lesotho 65 4 096 200.15 298 Malawi 419 95 643 — 1,421 Mozambique 1,764 42 138 271.04 2,476 Swaziland 133 — 059 119.52 310 Tanzania 3,346 133 199 78.09 5,291 Zambia 3,496 908 703 427.92 6,232 Zimbabwe 1,317 70 374 209.06 2,617 Source: OECD.
OECD member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.