HC Deb 01 December 1993 vol 233 cc571-2W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in full the current disbursements under the know-how funds.

Mr. Goodlad

Disbursements for 1992–93 were as follows:

£
Albania 40,000
Bulgaria 1,921,000
Estonia 359,000
Former Czechoslovakia 7,093,000
GDR 2,000
Hungary 5,741,000
Kazakhstan 136,000
Latvia 350,000
Lithuania 471,000
Poland 10,553,000
Romania 3,041,000
Eastern Europe and Pan Baltic regional 2,803,000
Azerbaijan 81,000
Belarus 26,000
Georgia 26,000
£
Russian Federation 11,201,000
Ukraine 3,093,000
Uzbekistan 267,000
Former Yugoslavia 45,000

The public expenditure provision for know-how fund countries for 1993–4 is approximately £53 million, of which approximately £23 million has been spent to date.