Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will specify each donation which the Overseas Development Administration has made in response to public appeals for financial aid during each financial year since 1979–80.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe ODA has made three responses to public appeals since 1979, in each case to appeals launched by the disasters emergency committee of major voluntary agencies following disasters overseas. These are:
£ December 1987, for famine victims in Ethiopia 2,000,000 August 1988, for flood victims in Sudan 1,000,000 August 1988, for flood victims in Bangladesh 1,000,000 These figures exclude the ODA's responses to the many appeals to donor Governments from the United Nations and other international agencies.