§ Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the President of the Board of Trade (1) what is his estimate of the value of British ex ports financed through multilateral aid schemes in the last financial year for for which full figures are available;
(2) what estimate he has of the value of United Kingdom exports to developing countries, the purchase of which is financed by aid payments from the United Kingdom, and from third countries, respectively.
§ Mr. MasonIn the 12 months ended 30th April. 1966, some £58.8 million was paid to exporters of British goods and services under contracts financed from formally tied British bilateral aid. A226W considerable volume of export business is also financed from untied and partially tied British aid, technical assistance and aid contributed in various ways by third countries but the value of this cannot be precisely estimated.