§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Overseas Development whether there has been any further change in the arrangements to adjust the total of the aid programme between one year and another to allow for uncertainties in the rate of disbursement.
§ Mr. TomlinsonFollowing the introduction of cash limits the arrangements which were announced on 6th December 1974 in respect of possible over- or underspending in the aid programme were suspended in 1976. It has now been decided that if the agreed total of the aid programme is under-spent in any one year by up to £15 million, such an under-spending may be added back to the programme in the next year but one. An excess would correspondingly be deducted from the programme for the next year but one.