§ Mr. Shoreasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the amount of official aid paid to developing countries by all aid donors and by the United Kingdom, respectively, in each year since 1970; and what has been the increased cost of imported oil paid by developing countries in the same period.
§ Mr. RaisonThe total official development assistance received from bilateral and multilateral sources by developing countries from 1970 to 1981—the latest year for which figures are available—was as follows:
US $ billion cash 1970 8.08 1971 9.36 1972 10.06 1973 12.43 1974 16.46 1975 20.09 1976 19.65 1977 20.36 1978 27.22 1979 30.61 1980 36.36 1981 35.51 The foregoing include flows of resources from nonmembers as well as members of the development assistance committee—DAC—of the OECD. These are based as far as possible on information relased by donor countries and internation organisations, and completed by the OECD secretariat estimates based on other published and unpublished sources. It has therefore not been possible fully to verify that they comply in all respects with the standards used by the United Kingdom and other DAC members.
Official development assistance from the United Kingdom to developing countries and multilateral agencies during the same period was as follows:
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US $ million cash 1970 390 1971 496 1972 539 1973 517 1974 636 1975 778 1975 885 1977 1,114 1978 1,465 1979 2,157 1980 1,852 1981 2,195 Estimates of LDC's oil imports in 1981 and 1982 are not readily available. The value of oil imports of the oil importing developing countries is estimated by the World Bank publication "Energy in the Developing Countries" to have risen from US $5,400 million in 1970 to US $31,500 million in 1975 and US $49,300 in 1980 in cash terms.