Foreign Countries and Agencies (U.K. Assistance) (Hansard, 6 December 1951)

§ Mr. R. A. Butler

Gifts and loans made by the United Kingdom to these countries and agencies from the end of the war to the end of June, 1951, are shown below. The figures at Table II (i) exclude regular contributions or subscriptions to international organisations, such as U.N.O. and its specialised agencies.

1. LOANS AND RECOVERABLE AID
(Amounts originally made available, unless otherwise stated)
	£ million
1. Austria:
Repayable part of post-U.N.R.R.A assistance	1.00
2. Burma:
Loan and credits, 1945–1949 (less amounts forgiven)	27.81
Stores supplied against later repayment	8.70
[United Kingdom share of Commonwealth loan	(a)3.751
3. Cyrenaica:
Loan of working capital	.35
4. Czechoslovakia:
Initial credit	5.00
Surplus goods credit	2.50

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5. Denmark:	£ million
Financial Agreement	35.00
6. France:
Financial Agreement	100.00
Private credit	15.00
7. Germany:
Cost of supplying civil economy (excluding occupation costs)	201.80
8. Greece:
Stabilisation loan	10.00
9. Iraq:
1939 credit	(b)3.00
10. Jordan:
Interest-free loan for development and resettlement	1.00
11. Netherlands:
Military equipment and surpluses—estimated portion of total payment agreed under debt settlement	25.00
12. Yugoslavia:
Credits, 1949–1951	(c)17.00
13. Civil Affairs (recoverable element)	50.00
14. Credit granted to E.P.U. (amount actually credited to end June. 1951)	113.50
TOTAL	£616.66

Notes:

(a) No payment has yet been made in respect of this loan, and it is doubtful if any payment will be made. It has been excluded from the total.

(b) Of which £2.66 million drawn to end June, 1951.

II. GIFTS
(i) INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
	£ million
1. International Red Cross fund for prisoner of war relief	.043
2. Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees	.977
3. International Refugee Organisation	21.715
4. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration	153.194
5. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund	.200
6. United Nations Fund for Palestine Refugees	3.814
7. Council for Technical Co-operation in South and South East Asia	.001
b. Contribution towards technical assistance for economic development	.760
SUB-TOTAL:	£180.704

(ii) FOREIGN COUNTRIES
	£ million
1. Austria:
Before 1st April, 1946	10.000
Post-U.N.R.R.A.	7.500
Surplus machine tools	.101
2. Burma:
Cancellation of debt	15.000
British Military Administration expenditure (cancelled claim) etc.	21.000
3. China:
Relief of distress	.025
4. Egypt:
Grant in aid to cotton cultivators	2.076

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5. Greece:	£million
Armed Forces' initial equipment maintenance, etc.	26.000
Surplus stores and relief supplies	2.000
Waiver of repayment of war-time advance	46.000
Gift of aircraft	.145
6. Hungary:
Surplus machine tools	.200
7. Italy:
Estimated value of surplus stores in excess of payments under financial agreement	55.000
8. Korea:
Donations in kind to unified command	.076
9. Lebanon-Syria:
Grant in aid of mobile clinics	.006
10. Netherlands:
Estimated value of surplus stores in excess of payments under debt settlement	16.000
11. Palestine:
Liabilities of Mandatory Government	18.626
12. Poland:
Waiver of repayment of civil credits	18.783
Surplus stores	6.000
Welfare and social services, June, 1946–March, 1947	5.000
13. Roumania:
Medical supplies and surplus Army foodstuffs	.020
14. Saudi Arabia:
Assistance to Government	.081
15, Sudan:
Welfare and development	2.000
16. Transjordan-Jordan:
Financial assistance	16.584
1 7. Assistance to Polish refugees	.554
18. Ex-Italian Colonies, cost of administration	8.293
19. Civil Affairs (irrecoverable element)	49.000
20. Miscellaneous	.959
Sub-total	£327.029

(iii) I.E.P.A. and E.P.U.
Intra-European Payments Agreement—£million net drawing rights exercised on the United Kingdom:
Austria	…	…	…	13.4
France	…	…	…	46.5
Western Germany	…	…	…	17.8
Greece	…	…	…	18.0
Turkey	…	…	…	11.8
	…	…	…	107.5

European Payments Union—initial debit position	53.57
Sub-total	161.07