§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the £250,000 funding for the African Medical and Research Foundation on maternal and child health and communicable disease control is allocated to family planning provision.
§ Mr. Neil MartenNo specific proportion of the grant to the African Medical and Research Foundation is allocated to family planning provision. However, the AMREF programme to which the grant will contribute does include components which will be concerned with family planning alongside other community health activities.
§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which African countries have since June 1979 submitted proposals to the Overseas Development Administration for population, family planning, maternal and child health, and birth spacing projects; which projects have been accepted; and what is the estimated cost of those accepted.
§ Mr. Neil MartenThis information cannot be assembled in the short time available. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the £112 million development assistance pledged to Zimbabwe in 1982–83 is allocated to family planning projects; and if the land resettlement programme to which the United Kingdom contributes will contain a family planning component.
§ Mr. Neil MartenSo far none of the £112 million of United Kingdom development assistance pledged to Zimbabwe since independence has been allocated to family planning projects. The United Kingdom contribution to the Zimbabwe Government's land resettlement programme is at present being used to finance730W half of the costs of land acquisition and initial infrastructural development, including the construction of health clinics.