Five-Year Plan

HC Deb 30 June 1959 vol 608 c29W

60. M. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to what extent the Five-Year Plan for Mauritius is being implemented.

M. Lennox-Boyd

The latest half-yearly review of the Mauritius Five-Year Plan, of which copies are in the Library of the House, shows that considerable and praiseworthy progress has been made. In the first two years of the plan some £4.5 million or about 30 per cent. of the total expenditure proposed will have been spent and 27 schemes completed. Work on several large projects will shortly begin and a sharp increase in the rate of expenditure is expected.