HC Deb 04 April 1967 vol 744 cc31-5W
Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine

asked the Minister of Overseas Development what are the total sums by way of bilateral

DISBURSEMENTS OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT BILATERAL ECONOMIC AID*
1945–46 TO 1965–66
A. Commonwealth Countries £ million
Grants Technical Assistance† Total Loans* Gross Total Economic Aid*
EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST
Cyprus 45.7 1.5 47.2
Malta 65.1 11.3 76.4
Aden 43.3 5.5 48.8
Other 1.9 0.2 2.1
Total 156.0 18.5 174.5
AFRICA
Gambia 7.8 0.1 7.9
Ghana 6.7 3.5 10.2
Nigeria 51.1‡ 26.8 77.9
Sierra Leone 11.6 7.4 18.8
East Africa (Common Services) 24.5 15.4 40.0
Kenya 81.3 45.7 127.0
Tanzania 41.7 13.0 54.8
Uganda 23.4 19.6 43.0
Malawi 36.2 7.6 43.0
Zambia 15.6 4.5 20.1
Rhodesia 4.4 3.9 8.2
Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia 4.3 2.9 7.2
Lesotho 13.8 0.5 14.2
Botswana 18.2 1.7 19.9
Swaziland 11.7 2.5 14.3
Lesotho Botswana and Swaziland 0.7 — 0.7
Mauritius 8.2 3.7 11.9
Other 7.1 0.6 7.9
Total 368.3 159.4 527.8
AMERICA (CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN)
Bahamas 0.1 — 0.1
Barbados 2.6 — 2.6
Bermuda — — —
Cayman Is. 0.2 — 0.2
Honduras Br. 13.1 0.8 13.8
Jamaica 21.8 3.7 25.5
Trinidad and Tobago 5.8 0.6 6.4
Turks and Caicos Is. 1.0 0.1 1.1
Antigua St. Kitts, Montserrat and Virgin Is. (Br.) 11.5 0.1 11.6
Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent 21.6 1.7 23.3
West Indies General 9.1 0.6 9.7
Guyana 13.8 14.6 28.4
Falkland Is. 0.4 — 0.4
Total 101.0 22.2 123.1
ASIA
Ceylon 1.7 2.2 3.9
India 5.3 207.7 213.0
Pakistan 6.0 54.0 60.0
Hong Kong 3.9 3.1 7.0
Malaysia 84.6 18.2 102.9
Singapore 3.6 0.2 3.7
Indus Basin Development Fund 14.5 — 14.5
Other 1.0 — 1.0
Total 120.6 285.4 406.0

economic aid dispersed by the British Government to each Commonwealth country and to each foreign country during the period 1945–46 to 1965–66.

Mr. Bottomley

Following is the information:

£ million
Grants Technical Assistance† Total Loans* Gross Total Economic Aid*
OCEANIA
Fiji … … 8.5 2.0 10.5
Solomon Is. (Br.) … … 8.9 — 8.9
Other … … 2.5 0.1 2.6
Total … … 19.9 2.1 22.0
GENERAL UNALLOCATED … … 31.1 — 31.1
TOTAL COMMONWEALTH … … 797.0 487.6 1,284.5

DISBURSEMENTS OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT BILATERAL ECONOMIC AID*:
1945–46 TO 1965–66
B. Foreign Countries
EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST
Greece … … 2.5 10.0 12.5
Turkey … … 1.2 23.9 25.1
Yugoslavia … … 19.5 23.5 43.0
Iran … … 1.1 9.6 10.7
Jordan … … 21.3 12.9 34.2
Other … … 11.8 2.7 12.0
Total … … 57.4 82.6 137.5
AFRICA
Libya … … 48.3 0.9 49.2
U.A.R (Egypt) … … 2.1 3.6 5.7
Cameroons … … 3.2 0.3 4.6
Somalia … … 14.1 0.1 14.2
Sudan … … 4.0 7.1 11.1
Other … … 11.5 0.1 11.6
Total … … 83.2 12.1 96.4
AMERICA (CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN)
Argentina … … 0.1 26.4 26.4
Brazil … … 0.1 5.5 5.6
Chile … … 0.3 4.5 4.8
Other … … 0.8 0.3 1.0
Total … … 1.3 36.7 37.8
ASIA
Burma … … 32.0 4.4 37.2
Laos … … 3.8 — 3.8
Other … … 5.2 1.0 8.5
Total … … 41.8 5.4 49.5
GENERAL UNALLOCATED … … 3.5 — 3.5
TOTAL FOREIGN … … 187.2 136.8 324.7
TOTAL COMMONWEALTH … … 797.0 487.6 1,284.5
GRAND TOTAL … … 813.8 170.2 624.4 1,609.2

Notes:

—Means nil or less than £50,000; totals may not add due to rounding.

* Excludes Exchequer advances to the Commonwealth Development Corporation.

† Technical assistance prior to 1961–62 cannot be reported separately by country.

‡ Includes Loans of £3.8 million to Nigeria to meet the cost of advances of compensation to Special List "B" officers.

Mr. Gwynfor Evans

asked the Minister of Overseas Development in which countries Overseas Aid, Multilateral, will be reduced so as to effect the proposed reduction of £137,000.

Mr. Bottomley

The decrease in the relevant vote in the Civil Estimates for 1967–68 is more than accounted for by the fact that in 1967–68 there is no counterpart of a special grant of £300,000 made in 1966–67 to the U.N. Special Industrial Services Trust Fund which still has considerable resources in hand. The question of reductions in individual countries does not arise, but in any case a feature of multilateral aid is that its distribution among countries is the responsibility of the agencies concerned and not of subscribing countries.