§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what percentage of British aid is directed to projects designed to assist primary education and adult literacy.
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§ Mrs. ChalkerIn 1988, expenditure on technical co-operation in education, including £47 million provided to the British Council, amounted to some £95 million (23 per cent. of total technical co-operation). A total of £2.6 million (0.6 per cent. of total technical co-operation) was specifically for primary education or adult literacy. A total of £1.1 million or 0.6 per cent. of financial project aid was specifically for primary education. Other projects are of general benefit to education including primary education and adult literacy.
In addition to the money spent under the bilateral aid programme, an unquantifiable proportion of the aid funds provided for multilateral donor organisations such as the World bank is committed to primary education and literacy work. In determining how much the ODA spends on the various levels of education in each recipient country, it takes into account existing or proposed projects by those organisations.