§ Ms DrownTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much debt was owed to the Department for International Development by each individual debtor country at 31 December 1997. [39668]
§ Clare ShortI have been asked to reply.
At 31 December 1997 a total of £160,777,000 was outstanding to my Department in the form of loans agreed under bilateral arrangements.
The following list shows the individual amounts due to be repaid.
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Total bilateral debt outstanding at 31 December 1997 Country £ Brazil 2,569,000 Cameroon 67,000 Cayman Islands 265,000 Colombia 222,000 Costa Rica 1,434,000 Cyprus 161,000 Ecuador 12,421,000 Falkland Islands 7,000 Gibraltar 185,000 India 13,643,000 Jamaica1 47,347,000 Laos 4,000 Liberia 78,000
Total bilateral debt outstanding at 31 December 1997 Country £ Malaysia 3,814,000 Nigeria 4,929,000 Paraguay 2,109,000 Philippines 3,459,000 Seychelles 7,580,000 Solomon Islands 3,833,000 St. Kitts 3,023,000 St. Vincent 3,552,000 Swaziland 2,247,000 Turkey 34,318,000 Zimbabwe 13,510,000 Total 166,777,000 1Subject to review in April 1999