HC Deb 05 April 1995 vol 257 c1118W
Miss Lestor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects funded, and the sums allocated, by the £34.5 million returned to the aid budget in 1994–95 in recompense for the illegal use of the money to fund the Pergau dam and three other aid for trade provision projects. [18211]

Mr. Baldry

Spending on these four projects for 1994–95 was estimated to be £32.016 million. This was allocated as part of a wider reallocation of resources at the time of the spring supplementary estimate. The availability of these funds effectively allowed:

  1. i. further spending on country programmes (£13.825 million)—principally for additional programme aid for Malawi, mine clearance in Cambodia and a range of know how fund projects in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
  2. ii. additional spending on emergency and refugee relief (£12.191 million)—principally of work in Bosnia, Rwanda and Chechyna; and
  3. iii. additional funding (£6 million)—principally for research and primary health care work in developing countries through the WHO and other international health organisations.