§ Mr. Stuart Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects to be able to announce the total amount of overseas aid disbursed in the calendar year 1983.
§ Mr. RaisonI am now in a position to announce that gross aid expenditure in 1983 was £1,170 million; this was a 6.4 per cent. increase in cash terms over 1982. Net official development assistance, the international measure of aid, was £1,055 million, equivalent to 0.35 per cent. of gross national product.