§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much official aid has been given to Nicaragua via non-governmental organisations in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Chris PattenPrecise details are not available on a year-by-year basis before 1986–87. Amounts provided to non-governmental organisations through the joint funding scheme are as follows:
Financial Years £'000 1980–81–1985–86 137 1986–87 24 1987–88 47 We have also provided some emergency aid to Nicaragua through non-governmental organisations. Total amounts provided for this purpose are:
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Year £'000 1985 100 1986 83 1987 Nil 1988 180
§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing in ranked order the per capita contributions made by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries to Nicaragua for the latest year for which figures are available including the total aid given by each Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country for that year.
§ Mr. Chris PattenI refer the hon. Lady to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke) on 19 May 1988 at column516. Figures for later years are not yet available.
§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much bilateral development aid and how much emergency aid has been given to Nicaragua in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information is as follows:
Official figures are not yet available for 1988, but Her Majesty's Government committed £260,000 in emergency aid to Nicaragua following hurricane Joan.
£'000s Bilateral Aid of which Emergency Aid 1983 64 34 1984 9 Nil 1985 116 100 1986 86 83 1987 Nil Nil
§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much development aid and how much emergency aid has been given to Nicaragua by the European Community in each of the last five years; and what the United Kingdom contribution to the aid has been.
§ Mr. Chris PattenNet official development assistance to Nicaragua, as reported by the European Community to the development assistance committee of the OECD in the last five years for which figures are available, is as follows:
£ million 1983 4.52 1984 10.99 1985 9.76 1986 6.19 1987 8.72 Expenditure on emergency aid is included in the preceding figures and is not available separately. However, the European Community has indicated that commitments made were as follows:
£ million 1983 Nil 1984 0.089 1985 Nil 1986 0.268 1987 Nil 1988 0.78 In each case, the United Kingdom contribution was around 20 per cent.