HC Deb 26 May 1993 vol 225 cc591-3W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assurances he has received from the Indian Government on public access to environmental and hydrological studies regarding the proposed Narmada dam.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

We are consulting the Indian authorities and the World bank about their plans to make environmental and hydrological studies relating to the Sardar Sarovar dam project publicly available.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether any of the local cost aid provided by the Government to India for the Narmada dam scheme has been used to buy any British military equipment.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The British Government have not provided any local costs assistance to the Narmada dam scheme.