HC Deb 09 May 2002 vol 385 c287W
Mr. David Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the total value was of aid and assistance given to her Department's regional programme in the Pacific in each of the last five years. [54465]

Clare Short

Funding to the Pacific provided through DFID's bilateral programme and through multilateral agencies, especially the EU, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the UN is as follows:

DFID bilateral programme
Financial year £ million
1996–97 8.552
1997–98 5.765
1998–99 4.941
1999–2000 4.193
2000–01 3.831
£ million
Calendar year EC World bank UN Others
1996 3.8 0.1 0.7 1.1
1997 6.0 0.1 0.7 1.4
1998 6.1 0.1 0.6 3.2
1999 0.9 0 0.7 0
2000 7.0 0.1 1.0 2.0

Note:

Multilateral agencies (these are UK multilateral shares—'Others' includes the Asian Development Bank for which separate figures are not available)

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