HC Deb 06 February 1967 vol 740 cc230-1W
Mr. Wingfield Digby

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the £1 million contract with Laker Airways for flying oil from Dar-es-Salaam to Ndola, Zambia, is being spent directly or indirectly from the United Kingdom public funds.

Mrs. Hart

Under the assistance agreement concluded with Zambia on 1st February H.M.G. have at the request of the Zambian Government allocated £250,000 to an airlift of aviation turbine fuel from Dar-es-Salaam to Ndola and Lusaka arranged by the Zambian Government with Laker Airways.