§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing, for each country receiving British bilateral aid, the amount of old aid loans that have been converted into grants, and the amount of aid loans still outstanding.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe figures are as follows:
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£ million Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990 Afghanistan 0.98 Antigua 0.04 Bangladesh 15.36 Barbados 0.47 Belize 21.24 Bolivia 0.15 Botswana 20.68 Brazil 3.26 Cameroon 0.07 Cayman Islands 0.79 Colombia 2.19 Costa Rica 3.21 Cote D'Ivoire 3.66 Cyprus 0.31 Dominica 9.99 East African Community 2.33 Ecuador 7.53 Egypt 17.57 7.02 Ethiopia 2.50 Falkland Islands 0.16 Fiji 1.53 Gambia 5.15
Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990 Ghana 50.85 0.29 Gibraltar 0.79 Grenada 6.69 Guyana 30.68 Honduras 3.99 India 1564.16 Indonesia 39.85 Jamaica — 54.91 Jordan — 47.52 Kenya 67.58 — Laos — 0.03 Lesotho 0.40 — Liberia — 0.08 Malawi 30.70 — Malaysia — 12.18 Malta — 0.19 Mauritius — 8.35 Mozambique 21.81 — Nepal 1.97 — New Hebrides — 0.10 Nicaragua — 0.58 Nigeria — 5.03 Pakistan 76.03 — Paraguay — 4.10 Peru — 4.19 Philippines — 5.48 St. Kitts — 5.62 St. Lucia — 5.00 St. Vincent — 5.00 Senegal 1.07 — Seychelles — 11.14 Sierra Leone 10.35 — Singapore — 5.28 Solomon Islands — 5.03 Sri Lanka 25.21 — Sudan 9.87 — Swaziland — 11.04 Tanzania 3.40 — Thailand — 0.84 Tonga — 1.46 Tunisia — 0.28 Turkey — 59.44 Uganda 22.09 — Vietnam — 0.20
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Country Project Total commitment United Kingdom Contractor/Supplier £ million Colombia System X Digital Telecoms 4.939 GEC/Plessey Egypt Maghara Coal Mine 0.080 Babcocks India URI-Hydro 17.920 Boving and Co. Indonesia Radio Studios 0.390 David Whittle Associates Indonesia Aircraft Simulator 0.050 CAA Indonesia Satellite Remote Sensing 0.025 Technology Applied Systems Indonesia Cigading/Serpong Railway Rehabilitation 26.429 Davy/British Railway International Indonesia Radio Studio Rehabilitation 5.040 Audix Ltd. Jordan Reconstruction of TCC 0.793 BT Telecoms Kenya Moi University 0.050 Cambridge Education Consultants Kenya Digital Radio Link I 2.434 GEC Kenya Digital Micro Wave Link 4.214 Telectron Systems Morocco Gas Turbines 7.276 JBE Morocco Diesel Electric Locos 6.300 Brush Electrical Morocco Nador Steel Works Study 0.133 W. S.Atkins Pakistan Karachi Water II 13.125 Portals Water Treatment Philippines Gas Turbines Power Station 7.276 JBE Red Sea Regional Hydro Carbon Study 0.187 Robertson Research International Swaziland Fire Equipment 0.123 Carmichael Fire and Bulk Tunisia Railway Equipment 0.572 Balfour Beatty Tunisia Yarn and Fibre Plant 0.337 Extrusion Systems Ltd. Turkey Natural Gas Conversion 62.470 AMEC International Construction Total 160.163
Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990 Western Samoa 0.20 — Yemen — 4.16 Zambia — 45.16 Zimbabwe 22.90 23.65 Totals 1,013.01 430.12 1 An agreement signed in January 1979 provided for India to receive an amount of local cost aid equivalent to its payments in respect of old aid loans.