HC Deb 20 January 1986 vol 90 cc19-20W
Mr. Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the current projects which will involve official aid totalling more than £10 million.

Mr. Raison

Current projects involving bilateral aid funds of over £10 million as at the end of 1984 are as follows.

Country Title
Overseas Development Administration direct
Bangladesh Ashuganj power station
Bangladesh Pumps for deep tubewells
Bangladesh Tea rehabilitation
Bangladesh Dhaka power distribution system
Botswana Moropule power station
Brazil Jacui power station
Egypt Cairo wastewater project
Gibraltar Dockyard conversion
India Forestry Mysore papermills
India Orissa family welfare
India Fertiliser education for farmers
India Karnataka social forestry
India Amlori coal mine
India Hazira fertiliser plant
India Housing and urban development corporation
India Coal-mining projects Nos. 1 and 2
India Thal Vaishet fertiliser plant
India Agricultural refinancing development corporation
India Rihand power station
India BALCO power project
Indonesia Mrica hydro-electric project
Kenya Upper Tana reservoir extension
Kenya Private natural resources development
Kenya Kiambere hydro-electric power
Kenya Thuchi-Nkubu road
Nepal Dharan/Dhankuta road
Pakistan Port Qasim
Pakistan Salinity control (SCARP VI) in irrigation systems
Pakistan Railway development
Sri Lanka Victoria dam and hydro-electricity
Sudan Electricity and water: Power III
Tanzania Songea/Makambako road
Turkey Beypazari lignite mine
Country Title
Through the Commonwealth Development Corporation
Cameroon Cameroon Development Corporation
Costa Rica Electric power dams
Indonesia Tree Crops—nucleus estates/smallholders VI
Indonesia Tree Crops—nucleus estates/smallholders VII
Papua New Guinea Cape Rodney cocoa estates
Sri Lanka Pelwatte Sugar
Thailand Rubber replanting programme
Zambia Chingola copper mine expansion

Comparable information for the end of 1985 will be available within the next two months.

Mr. Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the amount of aid allocated to each country over the past 12 months for which figures are available.

Mr. Raison

Figures of total aid to each individual country for 1984 are set out in detail in table 18 of "British Aid Statistics 1980–1984", copies of which are in the Library of the House. Figures for 1985 are expected to be published in July.

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