HC Deb 15 February 1990 vol 167 cc352-3W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff at all levels of the Overseas Development Administration worked full-time on matters concerning eastern Europe during January; how many Overseas Development Administration staff worked part-time on matters concerning eastern Europe; and approximately what percentage of their time, on average, this involved.

Mrs. Chalker

Bilateral assistance to eastern Europe is administered by a unit staffed jointly by the diplomatic and aid wings of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. At the end of January 1990 the unit had six full-time posts of which three were filled by staff from the Overseas Development Administration. The future staffing of the unit is currently under consideration.

A number of other ODA staff spent part of their time on bilateral or multilateral matters concerning eastern Europe.

For each of these staff the percentage of time so involved varies greatly on a day to day basis and could be quantified only at disproportionate expense.

United Kingdom bilateral aid to five poorest countries in Africa 1975–1988
£ thousand
of which
Total aid Total financial aid ATP Debt relief Total TC
Mozambique—GNP per capita $100
1975 25 19 6
1976 19 19
1977 2,899 2,863 36
1978 5,831 5,794 37
1979 6,369 5,954 415
1980 4,629 3,953 676
1981 5,379 4,417 782 962
1982 1,924 1,575 248 346
1983 1,805 1,555 548 250
1984 4,182 3,972 318 278 210
1985 8,366 7,605 322 1,112 761
1986 7,424 6,240 118 1,251 1,184
1987 22,798 20,658 661 1,251 2,139
1988 30,512 24,279 1,251 6,233
Ethiopia—GNP per capita $120
1975 2,909 1,279 1,630
1976 2,332 1,191 1,140
1977 1,726 1,002 724
1978 2,841 2,293 547
1979 2,877 2,084 793
1980 1,946 1,240 706
1981 563 24 539
1982 5,645 5,242 403
1983 3,433 3,018 415
1984 7,004 6,590 121 413
1985 28,058 27,434 212 624
1986 9,627 8,587 209 1,040
1987 8,554 6,141 209 2,412
1988 19,174 14,243 209 4,931
Chad—GNP per capita $160
1975 39 39
1976 42 42
1977 696 672 25
1978 -97 -138 42
1979 45 1 45
1980 26 6 20
1981 35 35
1982 360 303 57
1983 156 132 24
1984 31 31
1985 1,448 1,405 44
1986 89 57 32

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