§ Dr. Dickson Mabonasked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what amount of financial assitsance, and for what general or specific purposes, has been given, in each financial year, by Her Majesty's Government to the Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland since the Federation came into being.
§ Mr. BraineThe following Colonial Development and Welfare allocations to the Federal Government have been48W approved since the Federation was set up:
£ Development of Health Services 14,245 General African Film Unit 10,200 Road reconstruction 151,000 Rural hospitals in Northern Rhodesia 100,000 Meteorological services 64,749 Aeronautical Telecommunications 28,320 £368,514 Of this amount the following payments have been made:
£ 1954–55 … … … … 3,400 1955–56 … … … … 86,100 1956–57 … … … … 53,199 1957–58 … … … … 83,404 1958–59 … … … … 18,257 1959–60 … … … … 67,568 1960–61 … … … … 29,924 £341,852 In addition £1,892,705 out of an allocation totalling £2,875,000 has been paid to the University College in Salisbury; and the Colonial Development Corporation has lent £15 million to the Federal Government for the Kariba Dam project.