§ Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will estimate the draw down from the Overseas Development 16W Administration budget in each financial year for the four years beginning 1983–84 against the aid and trade provision; and if he will list estimated commitments in a manner relating to his reply to the hon. Member for Hertford and Stevenage, Official Report, 17 February, c. 271–73.
§ Mr. RaisonExcept for the information contained in the Supply Estimates, it is not the Government's practice to disclose forward planning figures for individual items within the aid programme. The main Supply Estimates for 1983–84 to be published shortly will for the first time show separately the planning allocation which corresponds to the aid and trade provision as recommended in para 16(c) of the second report from the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Supply Estimates 1982–83 (Session 1981–82) and accepted in the Government's observations on that report [Cmnd. 8734].