§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what percentage of Britain's bilateral aid budget is spent on humanitarian relief; and how this percentage figure has changed over the past five years.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe information is as follows:
Bilateral humanitarian assistance1 as a percentage of total ODA bilateral assistance Percentage 1988–89 8 1989–90 5 1990–91 6 1991–92 14 1992–93 13 1 ODA uses certain multilateral agencies as a means of delivering assistance to individual countries. This expenditure has been included in the figures above in order to provide a complete picture of ODA's bilateral humanitarian assistance effort.