HC Deb 29 February 1980 vol 979 cc753-4W
Mr. Arnold

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list those aid projects in Malawi for which he has financial responsibility.

Mr. Neil Marten

The projects being financed under the United Kingdom-Malawi 1978 grant are as follows:

SECTOR AND PROJECT TITLE

Education

  • Secondary Education
  • Technical-Vocational
  • Education Development of the Polytechnic

Health

  • Improvements to Rural and District Hospitals
  • Peripheral Health Units in Urban Centres

Housing

  • Development of Traditional Housing Areas
  • New Capital Traditional Housing Estates

Agriculture

  • National Rural Development Programme
  • Smallholders' Tea Development
  • Farm Machinery Research and Development
  • Agricultural Research Services and Rice Seed Improvement
  • Housing for Agricultural Extension Staff
  • Land Husbandry Development
  • Dryland and Irrigated Settlement Schemes
  • Irrigation Development
  • Crop Storage Research and Development
  • Seed Technology Services

Fisheries

  • Fisheries Development

Forestry and Game

  • Timber Plantation
  • Viphya Pulpwood
  • Viphya School
  • Viphya Sawmill
  • Viphya Forest Industry Trials
  • Rural Fuelwood and Poles
  • Woodwool Cement Panels
  • Development of Wild life Resources
  • Northern Region Forestry Headquarters

Veterinary Services

  • Disease Control
  • Integrated Livestock Development
  • New Capital Smallholder Poultry Project
  • Dairy Development Northern Region
  • Mzuzu Smallholder Poultry Project
  • Tsetse Survey

Post and Telecommunications

  • Trunk and Junction Circuit Growth
  • Internal Telegraphs
  • Rural Telecommunications Development
  • Calibration and Repair Centre, Zomba
  • Rural Electrification

Roads and Bridges

  • Key Rural Roads
  • Benga/Nkota/Mkhata Bay/Mzuzu Road (Lakeshore)
  • Dwanga—Chinteche Bridges

Railways

  • Malawi Railways Renewals and Improvements Wagon Weighbridges and Goods Handling Facilities

Water

  • Blantyre Water Board: Phase IV

Miscellaneous

  • National Census
  • Precise Levelling Survey
  • Sirport Equipment