HC Deb 09 February 1966 vol 724 cc113-4W
Sir Rolf Dudley Williams

asked the Minister of Overseas Development if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the amount given by the United Kingdom to individual nations of the Commonwealth during each of the last three years and the estimated amount for the current year.

Mr. Greenwood

The table below which includes both grants and loans for economic aid shows individual country figures for 1963 and 1964, and a broad provisional total for 1965. Country figures for the latter year will not be available for some time, but I will let the hon. Member have them as soon as possible. It is not the Government's policy to publish detailed forecasts of disbursements for periods ahead.

Following is the information:

BRITISH GOVERNMENT BILATERAL DISBURSEMENTS COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES
1963 £000 1964 £000
EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST
Aden 4,795 5,958
Cyprus 2,694 611
Gibraltar 12 45
Malta 6,073 6,825
AFRICA
West Africa
Ghana 1,230 2,388
Nigeria 1,672 4,797
Sierra Leone 2,248 1,470
Gambia 1,830 870
W.A.R.O 119 39
East Africa
East Africa (Common Ser vices) 4,081 5,961
Tanzania 6,464 7,939
Uganda 5,818 5,389
Kenya 16,407 14,759
Central Africa
Malawi 5,009 10,948
Zambia 3,177 7,628
Rhodesia 3,875 2,272
Malawi and Zambia 250 137
Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia 1,647 1,945
Other
Basutoland 1,942 1,936
Bechuanaland 1,914 3,176
Swaziland 1,452 2,701
Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland 13 104
1963 £000 1964 £000
Mauritius 2,077 699
St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha 165 247
Seychelles 215 326
General (unallocated) 20 72
AMERICA (Central and Southern)
Bahamas 10 505
Barbados 268 104
Bermuda 3
Cayman Islands 11 24
Falkland Islands 18 10
British Guiana 1,908 1,534
British Honduras 1,471 1,476
Jamaica 412 1,257
Trinidad and Tobago 840 1,201
Turks and Caicos Islands 177 179
Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis,
Montserrat and Virgin Islands 853 998
Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Dominica 1,469 2,386
West Indies General 92 18
ASIA
Brunei 1 1
Ceylon 840 740
Hong Kong 103 393
India 18,044 35,067
Malaysia 741 2,785
Malaya 569 425
Sabah 778 435
Sarawak 950 642
Singapore 319 122
Maldives 92 91
Pakistan 8,826 10,133
General (Unallocated) 51 25
OCEANIA
Fiji 1,576 1,207
Gilbert and Ellice Islands 145 135
New Hebrides 219 229
British Solomon Islands 992 1,001
Tonga 1 2
GENERAL (UNALLOCATED) 2,643 1,329
GRAND TOTAL 119,618 153,701
GRAND TOTAL FOR 1965 (provisional) £146,585,000