HC Deb 25 May 1994 vol 244 cc216-7W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what percentage and cash amount of Overseas Development Administration assistance has been allocated to(a) bilateral aid, (b) the European Union, (c) international financial institutions, (d) east and central Europe know-how funds and (e) other recipients over each of the past five years.

2. Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The breakdown of overseas development assistance is as follows:

1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
£000 Per cent. £000 Per cent. £000 Per cent. £000 Per cent. £000 Per cent.
(a) Bilateral aid to developing countries 831,859 56.8 925,416 56.7 1,020,358 60.0 983,483 49.8 1,036,274 49.6
(b) European Union 264,039 18.0 281,727 17.2 321,739 18.9 443,434 22.5 442,782 21.2
(c) International Financial Institutions 234,239 16.0 230,788 14.1 192,661 11.3 298,821 15.1 351,617 16.8
(d) Know How Fund 0 0.0 2,178 0.1 14,164 0.8 28,348 1.4 46,761 2.2
(e) Other1 133,337 9.1 193,458 11.8 151,560 8.9 220,808 11.2 213,932 10.2
1 "Other" consists of:

Bilateral

CEE/FSU—Food aid and Disaster relief.

Other ODA Expenditure—Polish Interest Stabilisation Fund.

Multilateral

UN Agencies, Commonwealth organisations, International research organisations.

3. Administration costs.