§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing the average agreed ceiling for local cost aid, and the percentage of bilateral aid actually given for local costs, as a percentage of project aid and a percentage of total bilateral aid, in Africa and Asia, in each year since 1979.
§ Mrs. Chalker[holding answer 19 June 1991]: Since 1990 there have no longer been any limits on the extent to which our financial aid to least-developed countries can be used to meet local costs. For other countries, local cost ceilings are established on a country or project basis; data on the level of these ceilings are not available in an aggregated form. The percentage figures for actual local cost aid are as follows:
Africa Asia Local costs as Percentage of Project aid (excluding ATP) Local costs as Percentage of total bilateral aid Local costs as Percentage of Project aid (excluding ATP) Local costs as Percentage of total bilateral aid 1981 28 7 20 14 1982 27 8 37 20 1983 26 7 41 26 1984 27 7 42 20 1985 18 4 46 21 1986 24 8 22 11 1987 19 2 21 9 1988 9 1 33 9 1989 11 1 25 8 19901 13 2 25 6 1 Provisional. Note: Local costs figures are not available by region before 1981.