HC Deb 01 June 1961 vol 641 c39W
Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what grants and loans have been made by the Exchequer or by Government agencies to the Central African Federal and Southern Rhodesian Governments, respectively, in each year since 1953.

Mr. Braine

As regards grants and loans to the Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a Question by the hon. Member for Greenock (Dr. Mabon) on 13th April. The £15 million loan for the Kariba Dam project made in 1955 by the Colonial Development Corporation has so far been disbursed as follows:—

£
1956 750,000
1957 1,300,000
1958 900,000
1961 6,300,000

No Exchequer grants or loans have been made to the Government of Southern Rhodesia, but the Colonial Development Corporation made them a loan of £1 million in 1956–57 for African housing.