§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will report on the United Kingdom contribution of $115 million part of $1 billion special action programme by donors arising out of the Conference on International Economic Co-operation which she announced to the House on 4th July 1977.
§ Mrs. HartAn agreement is being signed today between the International Development Association—IDA—and the Community and its member States under which the latter will make additional contributions to the IDA to a total of $385 million. The United Kingdom's share of this will be $115 million, currently, equivalent to about £61 million. Full details of the agreement will be published in a Command Paper and the approval of the House for the United Kingdom to make its contribution will be sought by the submission of a Statutory Instrument.