HC Deb 29 April 1991 vol 190 c26W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was, for each year since 1970, the amount of funds given to Chile by Her Majesty's Government under bilateral technical co-operation agreements in 1991 money.

Mrs. Chalker

Gross bilateral technical co-operation expenditure for Chile from 1970 to 1989, the latest year for which figures are available, was:

Year Current prices Constant (1990) prices
1970 233 1,604
1971 232 1,460
1972 324 1,886
1973 507 2,756
1974 382 1,807
1975 306 1,138
1976 939 3,032
1977 2,073 5,876
1978 1,079 2,747
1979 2,131 4,742
1980 2,021 3,764
1981 1,452 2,427
1982 675 1,049
1983 442 653
1984 257 363
1985 256 342
1986 202 260
1987 236 290
1988 241 277
1989 267 287

The figures in the first column include amounts, totalling over £11 million in current prices, spent since 1973 in support of various World University Service programmes for Chilean refugee students.

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