HC Deb 11 December 1989 vol 163 cc454-5W
Mr. Lester

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total outstanding Overseas Development Administration debt in(a) 1982, (b) 1988 and (c) for each country in 1988; how much was repaid each year between 1982 and 1988; and under what terms the credits had been made available.

Mrs. Chalker

The figures for the calendar year 1988 are not yet available and therefore the following figures are given on a financial year basis for the sake of consistency. The outstanding debt totals at the end of 1982–83 and 1988–89 were £1,208,126,092 and £1,176,970,296 respectively; the breakdown of the latter by country is shown in table 1. The figures do not include loans which at the relevant dates had been converted to grants under the retrospective terms adjustment arrangements or written off. In the case of India an equivalent measure to retrospective terms adjustment was adopted in the form of local costs finance equal to the payments due. The amounts repaid between 1982–83 and 1988–89 are shown in table 2. The terms of loans varied considerably and details of all loans could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Table 1
Breakdown by country of outstanding debt totals at end of 1988–89
£
Antigua 145,033.72
Barbados 523,070.30
Belize 11,552,858.93
Bolivia 270,856.48
Brazil 3,340,202.17
British Virgin Islands 2,477,144.55
Cameroon 66,775.58
Cayman Islands 900,223.70
Colombia 2,591,575.67
Costa Rica 3,214,041.25
Cyprus 344,048.99
Dominica 6,353,939.01
Ecuador 7,557,273.24
Egypt 6,863,734.57
Falkland Islands 191,025.81
Fiji 1,887,821.78
Gibraltar 902,075.73
Ghana 331,120.53
Grenada 3,263,707.50
Guyana 25,041,467.13
Honduras 3,985,888.79
India 193,946,546.91
Ivory Coast 2,564,520.59
Jamaica 49,332,675.99
Jordan 37,285,063.06
Laos 27,983.00
Liberia 77,749.50
Malaysia 13,767,453"87
Malta 1,692,486.23
Mauritius 8,235,343.27
New Hebrides 114,620.00
Nicaragua 584,705.62
Nigeria 5,055,084.04
Paraguay 4,220,000.00
Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen 4,162,899.66
Peru 4,194,608.68
Philippines 5,481,634.67
St. Kitts-Nevis 758,694.63
St. Lucia 635,066.65
St. Vincent 81,549.56
Seychelles 10,921,084.69
Singapore 7,291,652.00
Solomon Islands 4,736,949.90
Swaziland 10,196,888.58

£
Thailand 981,392.08
Tonga 1,673,486.92
Trinidad and Tobago 60,000.00
Tunisia 339,822.01
Turkey 69,871,630.85
Vietnam 196,789.37
Zambia 45,262,252.23
Zimbabwe 26,166,265.70
Bailey Malta (Ltd) 6,405,480.00
Country Total 598,126,274.69
Multilateral 67,778,686.72
Commonwealth Development Corporation 511,065,334.24

Table 2
Amounts repaid between 1982–83 and 1988–89
£
1982–83 69,691,483.78
1983–84 70,103,983.98
1984–85 70,896,173.25
1985–86 70,475,174.81
1986–87 69,720,259.00
1987–88 70,893,107.50
1988–89 68,538,447.67