§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for 1988, 1989 and 1990 to the most recent practicable date the development aid given to Cambodia by the United Kingdom Government; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Mr. Lester) on 15 October, at column633. Britain has no Government-to-Government aid programme in Cambodia, but details of humanitarian aid provided to Cambodians since 1988–89 is as follows:
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A. Projects co-funded with British non-governmental organisations Project Disbursed Committed 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 (£) (£) (£) Support for Primary and Secondary Schools — 13,884 — Community Schools 15,000 — — World Council of Churches 21,490 — — Preventative Health Care Services, Kampot — — 192,250 Initial Assessment — 5,841 — Primary Health Care — 8,631 — Primary Health Care — — 61,433 Rural Water Supply 46,656 — — Takeo Canal Irrigation System 79,534 — — Rural Water Supply — — 7,570 Animal Vaccines Project — — 43,604
Project Disbursed Committed 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 (£) (£) (£) Ministry of Agriculture — — 54 Agricultural Development — 33,270 — Engineering Assistance Programme — — 35,985 162,680 61,626 340,896
B. Multilateral agencies working inside Cambodia Agency and Programme 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 (£) (£) (£) United Nations Children's Fund Health, water, nutrition, sanitation and education 250,000 250,000 500,000 Food and Agriculture Organisation Animal vaccines 100,000 — — World Health Organisation Anti-malaria — — 200,000 World Food Programme To support UNICEF's well and pond digging programme — — 300,000 350,000 250,000 1,000,000
C. Assistance to Cambodians on Thai/Cambodia border 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 (£) (£) (£) UNBRO 350,000 500,000 1— Humanitarian Aid to non-communist Cambodian refugees 100,000 100,000 — NGOs 100,000 60,000 44,000 ICRC 50,000 — — 600,000 660,000 44,000 1 1990 contribution to UNBRO made in first quarter of year.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reason a proposal for the repair of a water filtration plant in Cambodia was turned down.
§ Mrs. ChalkerOxfam applied in 1988 for co-funding of a water distribution project in Phnom Penh under our joint funding scheme. When we told non-governmental organisations, including Oxfam, that we were prepared to support projects in Cambodia, we indicated that we would prefer to consider smaller-scale development projects with a humanitarian element and not infrastructural projects concerned with restoring or maintaining major public utilities which are more usually the concern of government rather than non-governmental organisations.
This project fell into that second category and was therefore rejected. Since 1988–89 we have committed £565,000 to co-fund 12 projects in Cambodia carried out by non-governmental organisations, including five from Oxfam, and are currently considering five new proposals, including three from Oxfam.