§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister for Overseas Development if he will tabulate the amounts of direct and indirect aid, under appropriate subheadings, provided by the United Kingdom for each Commonwealth country in Africa in 1974, together with the gross domestic product per head and export income per head for each country in a comparable unit of account.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe amount of bilateral aid provided by the British Government to Commonwealth Africa in 1974 as shown in Table A below, which shows also the gross domestic product and export income per had of population for each recipient country. Table B—also below—gives an analysis of the figures for technical assistance, i.e. column 4 of Table A.
The amounts exclude aid provided by the international agencies to which the United Kingdom contributes; this cannot readily be identified.
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TABLE B COMPONENT PARTS OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO COMMONWEALTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES, 1974 (£'000) Countries Training Experts supplemented Experts wholly financed (including) advisers Equipment and services (including) consultancies Technical assistance Kenya … … … 286 3,529 311 473 4,599 Mauritius … … … 77 236 103 163 579 Seychelles … … … 131 312 214 95 752 Tanzania … … … 110 1,194 * 3 1,307 Uganda … … … 38 344 19 15 416 Rhodesia … … … 274 — — 6 280 Botswana … … … 80 992 142 79 1,293 Lesotho … … … 81 246 111 114 552 Malawi … … … 244 2,661 117 222 3,244 Swaziland … … … 66 295 48 20 429 Zambia … … … 176 3,998 24 196 4,394 Gambia … … … 114 122 90 144 470 Ghana … … … 375 215 256 291 1,137 Nigeria … … … 786 2,333 234 438 3,791 St. Helena … … … 20 46 61 12 139 Sierra Leone … … … 116 213 80 17 426 TOTAL … … … 2,974 16,736 1,810 2,288 23,808 *Item under £500.