HC Deb 14 July 1953 vol 517 cc152-3W
Mr. T. Reid

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the total value of all gifts, given or promised, to British Dependencies since the end of the First World War, including direct grants for wealth-producing schemes, or to help to pay recurrent expenses, remission of debts, war and catastrophe grants, etc.; if he will give a list, in detail, of all the beneficiaries and the amounts allocated to each; and what was the total of trustee stock loans raised for these Dependencies in London over the same period.

Mr. Lyttelton

The total value of all such gifts to the Colonial Dependencies by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom since 1920 is £334,135,146. The statement below shows how this sum is divided into various kinds of assistance.

The figures do not include (a) grants to Palestine and Trans-Jordan of £107,309,800 between 1921–22 and 1949–50, (b) loans from the Consolidated Fund to the Colonial Development Corporation

—— Issued 1920–1945 Issued 1945–1951–52 Estimated 1952–53 Estimated 1953–54 Further amount promised Totals
£ £ £ £ £ £
Colonial Development and welfare … 19,169,000 55,730,443 13,906,578 17,500,000 52,862,979 159,169,000
Grants in aid of administration … 27,994,000 5,886,544 2,088,609 1,896,650 — 37,865,803
Grants in aid of reconstruction and rehabilitation … — 5,525,000 241,733 1,190,000 368,000 7,324,733
Grants to Malta for war damage … 10,000,000 6,740,000 1,945,000 2,872,626 8,442,374 30,000,000
Far East war damage, compensation … — 7,283,334 7,533,333 6,000,000 — 20,816,667
Grants for internal security (Malaya, Africa, West Indies) … — 13,248,500 3,184,613 6,210,266 380,000 23,023,379
Cost of Forces in Malaya … — 10,225,000 8,685,000 — — 18,910,000
Food subsidies … — 2,567,000 — — — 2,567,000
Miscellaneous … 2,805,000 4,602,107 1,238,547 1,812,410 687,500 11,145,564
Totals …£ 59,968,000 111,807,928 38,823,413 37,481,952 62,740,853 310,822,146
CLAIMS WAIVED
Loans written off under Colonial Development and Welfare Act, 1940 … 10,150,000 — — — — 10,150,000
Cost of military administration in Far East … — 10,000,000 — — — 10,000,000
Defence expenditure in Fiji — 2,068,000 — — — 2,068,000
Cancellation of North Borneo commitments for period prior to 31st December, 1946 … — 1,095,000 — — — 1,095,000
Totals …£ 10,150,000 13,163,000 — — — 23,313,000
Grand Totals …£ 70,118,000 124,970,928 38,823,413 37,481,952 62,740,853 334,135,146