§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide details of budgetary resources made available in constant terms for each division within the Overseas Development Administration for the years 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1985.
§ Mr. EggarInformation about administrative resources was not collected in the form requested before 1983 and has since been recorded by financial years. Administrative resources, in 1984–85 cash terms, available to divisions in 1983–84 and 1984–85 were:
Division 1983–84 £ million 1984–85 £ million Africa 2.4 2.4 Asia and the Oceans 3.5 3.6 Functional 2.8 2.9 Scientific Units 10.8 10.8 International 1.3 1.3 Overseas Manpower 6.8 *5.9 Finance and Economic Services 3.6 3.8 Policy and Organisation 7.9 7.4 39.1 38.1 * Underspend due to a strike by the staff who make payments of overseas service pensions. The distribution of resources by region and function under the official aid programme is given in the annual publication "British Aid Statistics", a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library.