§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the amount of aid given by the Government to Ethiopia over the past year.
§ Mr. RaisonOur main contribution has been through the European Community, which has allotted direct to the Ethiopian Government 58,630 tonnes of cereals (including 18,030 in emergency aid) 600 tonnes of butter oil, 2,100 tonnes of skimmed milk powder, and 2,440 tonnes of other foodstuffs. The Community has also allotted 24,000 tonnes of cereals and other emergency aid to non-governmental organisations for refugee and drought relief in Ethiopia. All this will cost about £16 million of which our share is about a fifth.
We have given £817,000 to British voluntary agencies working to relieve the victims of the Ethiopia drought and £3 million to the ICRC and the League of Red Cross Societies on behalf of eight severely affected countries including Ethiopia. We also agreed to help meet an urgent appeal from the Ethiopian Government for aid to postgraduate medical education in the country.