Aid Programmes

HC Deb 28 October 1980 vol 991 c213W

Mr. Hooley

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list in the Official Report those members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development who have announced, in the course of 1980, increases in their official aid programmes, indicating the approximate value of the increases in £sterling and the consequent effect on their achievement of the official United Nations aid target of 0.7 per cent. of gross national product.

Mr. Neil Marten

For 1979 the information is as follows:

	Public Expenditure on Overseas Aid* (gross)	£'000 Of which Technical Co-operation
Zambia	29,159	9,227
Mozambique	6,369	415
Botswana	7,404	4,498
Tanzania	23,559	7,051
* Includes Commonwealth Development Corporation.

DAC member	ODA 1979 (£million)	Percentage of GNP
Austria	…	59.8	0.19	Appears to be considering increases in aid although unclear what this implies in terms of the 0.7 per cent. target.
Canada	…	484.7	0.46	To reach 0.5 per cent. of GNP by 1985 and 0.7 per cent. by 1990.
Denmark	…	211.2	0.75	To maintain its aid at not less than 0.7 per cent. of GNP up to 1984.
Finland	…	40.6	0.21	To reach 0.7 per cent. of GNP by 1990.
France	…	1,588.3	0.59	To increase aid towards 0.7 per cent. of GNP.
Germany	…	1,578.9	0.44	Will endeavour during the 1980s to make rapid and substantial increases in its ODA with a view to reaching the 0.7 per cent. target.
Italy	…	…	128.7	0.08	To reach 0.34 per cent. by the end of 1983; will make all possible efforts to reach 0.7 per cent. by 1990.
Japan	…	…	1,243.1	0.26	To increase the value of its ODA and to raise its ODA/GNP ratio as early as possible to the average of DAC members (0.34 per cent.) as an intermediate step to reaching the 0.7 per cent. target.
Netherlands	…	661.5	0.93	Expects its aid to stabilise at around 1 per cent. of GNP in the period up to 1984.
Norway	…	202.4	0.93	To maintain aid budget at 1 per cent. of GNP.
Sweden	…	450.6	0.94	Will from 1981 maintain its aid at about 1 per cent. of GNP.
Switzerland	…	96.7	0.21	To reach 0.35 per cent. of GNP by 1985.