Caribbean Islands

HC Deb 15 February 1994 vol 237 cc683-4W

Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much financial assistance is available to the territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique from the European Community under Lomé IV; and how much financial assistance is available to Belize, Dominica and Jamaica.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

No financial assistance is available to Guadeloupe and Martinique under Lomé IV; financial assistance is available to Belize, Dominica and Jamaica as follows:

National indicative programme (1990–95)
	Million ecu
Belize	9
Dominica	6.5
Jamaica	46

Belize, Dominica and Jamaica are also eligible for structural adjustment support, export earnings stabilisation—STABEX—support for the mining sector—SYSMIN—emergency and refugee assistance and loans from the European investment bank.