§ Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will 266W publish the Department's definition of developmental value whether applied to aid and trade provision or projects financed under the regular geographical bilateral aid programme.
§ Mr. RaisonThe Overseas Development and Co-operation Act gives the Secretary of State power to provide funds for the purpose of promoting the development or maintaining the economy of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or the welfare of its people. There can of course be no simple definition of developmental value. The Department assesses all projects, including those under the aid and trade provision, to determine whether they will contribute to sound economic growth or to improving the social welfare of the country concerned.
§ Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he will publish the evaluation of aid and trade provision projects referred to in his reply to the Foreign Affairs Committee, paragraph 5, Cmnd. 8734.
§ Mr. RaisonThe studies are not yet under way, permission for them from the various authorities concerned having only recently been obtained. A series of projects will be looked at and a report drawing together the various findings will then be prepared. This report is planned for April 1984.
§ Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out in a table all contracts awarded to British firms with help from the aid and trade provision, listing the British company involved, the project and its nature, the amount of the British content, the number of jobs sustained or created in the United Kingdom by the contract and the amount of money spent on each project to date.
§ Mr. RaisonThe information requested is listed as follows, except for that on employment aspects which could be provided only at disproportionate costs: 267W
Contracts awarded to British firms with help from the aid and trade provision Country Company Project United Kingdom content £ million ATP expenditure to date £ million Projects where ATP disbursements completed: Bangladesh GEC Combined Cycle Plant 17.297 4.68 Belize Plessey Telecommunications Equipment 3 0.688 Burma Mackies Jute Mill Expansion 10.592 2.154 Burma Kelvin Diesels Marine Diesel Engines 7.35 1.202 Burma Mackies Jute Carpet Backing Plant 5.882 1.178 Burma Cementation and APV International Pharmaceutical Plant Design Study 0.2 0.188 Caribbean (through Caribbean Development Bank) BAe HS748 Aircraft 2.596 2.596 Cyprus NEIReyrolle Dhekelia B Power Station 1.5 0.366 Egypt Rolls Royce Electricity Generation 28 10.02 Egypt Ransomes Rapier Draglines/Irrigation 7.5 2.606 Guinea Bissau BAe HS748 Aircraft 3.5 1.292 Jordan Wimpey Potash Project 35 10 Kenya Bre Metro Soda Ash Wagons 3.098 1.279 Malaysia BAI Airport Study 50 0.443 Malaysia STC IOCOM Submarine Cable 23 9.018 Morocco Davy McKee Nadar Rod Mill 51.5 13.505 Mozambique Hunting Geology Mineral Inventory 4.23 1.031 Pakistan Austin and Pickersgill 3 SD18 Ships 27 9.572 Philippines Balfour Beatty Mini Hydro Survey 0.1 0.1 Senegal BAe HS748 Aircraft 3 1 Tanzania British Leyland Bus Chassis 0.96 0.481 Tanzania BICC-Burndy Compression Connectors 0.05 0.025 Tanzania Bre Metro Railway Equipment 25 3.5 Tanzania/Zambia Gloucester Railway Bogies for Tazara 5.4 0.189 Vietnam JBE Haipon Power Station 9.6 02.88 Vietnam Austin and Pickersgill SD 14 Ships 18 4.463 Zambia British Leyland Buses 1.76 1.76 Projects where ATP disbursements not completed Brazil NEI/Klockner Jacui Power Station 90.8 9.219 Burma JBE Gas Turbines 15.625 3.072 Burma JBE Gas Turbines 11.044 2.021 Colombia Balfour Beatty Bridging 1.07 0.277 Egypt GEC Switchgear 7.5 1.885 India NEI Super Thermal Power Plant 231.0* 5 Indonesia Balfour Beatty Mrica Hydro Electric Project 50 3.045 Kenya Plessey Telecommunications 2.815 0.566 Kenya Ferguson Ailsa Tugs for Mombasa Port 13.54 1.922 Kenya Bre Metro Railway Coaches 23.7 1.835 Madagascar BAe Maintenance for HS748 Aircraft 21 0.445 Mexico Davy McKee Sicartsa Steel Mill 200 32.942 Paraguay Balfour Beatty Power Transmission Scheme and Extension 16.593 3.176 Peru Balfour Beatty Mini Hydros 25.625 1.754 Philippines Balfour Beatty Rural Electrification 14.5 2.83 Philippines Balfour Beatty Wood Burning Power Stations 8.592 1.954 Sri Lanka Brush Electrical Locomotives 7.952 2.864 Zimbabwe GEC/Balfour Beatty/Westinghouse Railway Electrification 27.465 7.029 Zimbabwe PED Ltd. Hwange Power Station: High Pressure Pipework 3.6 0.312 Contracts awarded but aid agreement not yet signed. Egypt Seltrust Engineering W Sebaeya Fertiliser Plant 14.55 Nil Malaysia GEC Viewdata System 2.365 Nil * Associated with total aid funding of £117 million of which only part is charged to the ATP.