§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list in the Official Report the amount of official development aid actually disbursed to Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Tanzania, respectively, in each year from 1974 to 1979.
§ Mr. Neil MartenI set out in the table below the information that is currently available to us in respect of those members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development who have made announcements, this year, implying an increase in their official aid programmes. These in most cases are expressed in terms of movement towards a target percentage of GNP. The uncertainties over future levels of GNP make it impossible to indicate at this stage how far future aid flows in value terms will increase or decrease.
tions to the collection, presentation or publication of statistics which his Department has made since May 1979.
§ Mr. David MitchellI have been asked to reply.
215WThe five-yearly compulsory inquiry into manufacturers' purchases was held in January 1980. It was addressed to 16,200 firms, none of which employed fewer than 50 persons.
Some 2,000 large companies contributing voluntarily to the annual overseas transactions inquiries have been asked to provide additional information on their overseas borrowing and lending and certain other transactions. An additional 240 companies have also agreed to provide this information. This will replace some of the information lost from the abolition of exchange control.
A one-off voluntary inquiry addressed to 450 large engineering firms asking for information about the timing and price aspects of their sales and orders will be held next month.