§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 6 June,Official Report, column 58, what satellite remote sensing technology has now been, or will be, supplied to the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry under (a) the bilateral aid programme and (b) commercial arrangements; what is the precise nature of the technology; and which British companies are involved. [28186]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: Under the tropical forestry management programme we have supplied the Ministry of Forestry with a local application of remote sensing techniques—LARST—system to receive and process up-to-the-minute information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite and Meteosat which are used to monitor the incidence of forest fires in Kalimantan. The project has also supplied NASA satellite imagery for forest and land use mapping purposes.
LARST is a personal computer—based system developed by the Natural Resources Institute at Chatham, in co-operation with the universities of Bradford, Reading and Cranfield, and the Meteorological Office, under an ODA research grant.
505WLARST is low cost, simple and robust, and has many applications: drought and famine early warning, vegetation and pest monitoring, animal tracking, weather forecasting and aquatic resource management.
As to the precise nature of the technology provided under the aid and trade provision, I refer my hon. Friend to my answer of 6 June 1995, Official Report, column 58. The seminar was arranged by Technology Applied Systems Ltd.—using a team which included representatives from the British National Space Centre, Farnborough, the universities of Dundee, Nottingham and North Wales, the Natural Resources Institute, Technology Applied Systems Ltd., Hunting Technical Services and Gems of Cambridge.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 May,Official Report, column 584, if he will give the exact date on which full and formal appraisal documents were submitted by the Overseas Development Administration and the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of the aid and trade provision support for the AIS submarine cable project; and by whom the appraisals were undertaken. [28189]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: The Department of Trade and Industry's appraisal document was completed in March 1984 and that of the Overseas Development Administration in June 1984. Each appraisal was conducted by officials of the relevant department. The ODA obtained additional advice from technical staff of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 6 June,Official Report, columns 56–57, what specific equipment was supplied under the Bali and Medan airport security project; and who the Government engaged to carry out the associated training programme. [28183]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: The equipment supplied under the Bali and Medan airport security systems project was as follows:
External Items
- CCTV Cameras
- Lifting Boom type gates
- Hand-held radios
- Mobile X-Ray units
- Portable X-Ray units
- Microphonic fence detection systems
- Microwave transceivers
Internal Items
- CCTV Cameras
- Hand baggage X-Ray units
- Hold baggage X-Ray units
- Hand-held metal detectors
- Hand-held explosives vapour detectors
- Archway metal detectors (Passenger gateways)
- Passive infra-red detectors
- Access control system
- Guard tour points
Associated Items
- Cables—mains power, coaxial video, fibre optic, data
- Video recorders
- Central control console
- Camera control system
506 - Alarm monitor computer
- Tools and test equipment
- Uninterrupted power supplies
- Spares
- Training was carried out at the college of the UK supplier.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 May,Official Report, column 584, if he will give the exact date on which full and formal appraisal documents were submitted by the Overseas Development Administration and the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of the aid and trade provision support for the Bukit Asam rail bridges project; and by whom the appraisals were undertaken. [28187]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: The Department of Trade and Industry's appraisal was completed in August 1984 and that of the Overseas Development Administration during October 1984. The appraisals were undertaken by officials of the departments, with assistance from technical staff of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 May,Official Report, column 584, if he will give the exact date on which full and formal appraisal documents were submitted by the Overseas Development Administration and the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of the aid and trade provision support for the isolated diesels project; and by whom the appraisals were undertaken. [28188]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: The appraisal documents for this project were submitted by both Departments in August 1982. The appraisals were conducted by the relevant officials in each Department.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 May,Official Report, column 584, if he will give the exact date on which full and formal appraisal documents were submitted by the Overseas Development Administration and the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of the aid and trade provision support for the Mrica hydro project; and by whom the appraisals were undertaken. [28190]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 12 June 1995]: The Department of Trade and Industry's appraisal document was completed in September 1981 and that of the Overseas Development Administration in January 1982. Each appraisal was conducted by officials of the relevant department.