HC Deb 05 March 1986 vol 93 cc164-5W
Mr. Beith

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the aid trade provision projects that have been agreed in the current year's financial provision.

Mr. Raison

So far in the present financial year four agreements involving aid trade provision funds of £4.9 million have been signed. The overall value of British exports associated with these agreements is expected to be £14.1 million. These are:

following table. None of these offers has so far resulted in an ATP agreement being signed. Increased ATP support has also been offered on seven projects on which initial offers had been made before 1 April 1985; these are listed in part B of the table.

Country Project United Kingdom company United Kingdom export value Aid trade provision allocation
Cameroon Railbus BreLeyland 8.570 2.152
China Air separation units Air Products Ltd. 17.000 5.040
Colombia System X Plessey 8.500 2.134
Cyprus Larnaca Airport UKAG 18.975 4.763
Economic Community of West African States Telecommunications Project Not known 16.000 5.750
Egypt Sadat City Water Supply GKN Birwelco 4.587 1.151
India Damodar Valley Corp. GEC PR/JBE 20.930 6.380
India Diesel Pumping Sets NEI/APE 3.240 0.813
India Gas turbines Ruston Diesels 28.800 7.220
India Petrochemicals JBE 24.260 6.080
India Optical Fibres STC 17.000 4.500
India HBJ pipecoating Snamprogetti 20.000 5.020
India UAE Submarine Cable STC 24.450 6.140
Indonesia Computers ICL 15.650 4.660
Indonesia Radio and TV Link Electronics 18.063 5.420
Indonesia Machine Tools Crown Agents 24.300 6.100
Kenya Kipevu Power Station JBE 9.520 2.450
Malawi Power Transmission Balfour Beatty HSPE 8.080 2.030
Malawi UXD5 Rural Telephone Exchange GEC 5.118 1.888
Malaysia Cross Braced Bogies BRE Ltd. 6.160 1.610
Malaysia Labua Sabah Submarine Cable Balfour Beatty 15.830 3.970
Malaysia Load Despatch Centres Ferranti 2.731 0.676
Malaysia Railway Braking Davies & Metcalf 8.932 2.238
Malaysia Sarawak Transmission Line GEC 3.600 0.903
Malaysia Sungai Piah Hydro Project GEC 4.500 1.130
Malaysia Air Navigation Equipment Racal Avionics 0.600 0.150
Malaysia Transmission Switchgear GEC 5.300 1.322
Mauritius Water Turbine Gilbert Gordon Gilkes 0.544 0.137
Mexico Railway Coaches BRE Ltd. 11.000 2.750
Sri Lanka Samanala Wewa Hydro Project Balfour Beatty (Lead Consortium) 57.200 14.400
Syria Sweidieh Power Station JBE 33.400 8.400
Thailand Mae Moh Boilers McDermott Eng. 23.400 7.090
Thailand Bangkok Buses Leyland 80.000 20.000
Tunisia Sakmo Diesel Engines Hawker Siddeley 88.529 22.220
Tunisia Kef Eddour Phosphate Mine Taymel 12.000 3.048
Yemen Arab Republic Yominco Oil Products Pipeline Technip 16.986 6.800
725.363 188.883

Enhanced offers of ATP support have also been made this financial year in respect of the following projects:

£ million
Country Project United Kingdom company United Kingdom export value Total aid trade provision allocation
Burma Rangoon Electrical Distribution BCPE 20.000 5.800
India Delhi Electricity Gas Turbines John Brown Engineering 31.430 10.595
Malaysia Rural Water Supply Schemes Biwaters 194.000 59.460
Malaysia Locomotives GEC/Brush 24.500 8.960
Mauritius Plaisance Airport Plessey 23.870 6.788
Thailand Railbus Bre-Leyland 7.966 1.999
Thailand Mae Moh Turbines NEI 40.546 11.300
Turkey Bosphorous Bridge Cleveland Bridge 40.000 14.800