HC Deb 28 February 1991 vol 186 cc562-4W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing, for each country receiving British bilateral aid, the amount of old aid loans that have been converted into grants, and the amount of aid loans still outstanding.

Mrs. Chalker

The figures are as follows:

£ million
Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990
Afghanistan 0.98
Antigua 0.04
Bangladesh 15.36
Barbados 0.47
Belize 21.24
Bolivia 0.15
Botswana 20.68
Brazil 3.26
Cameroon 0.07
Cayman Islands 0.79
Colombia 2.19
Costa Rica 3.21
Cote D'Ivoire 3.66
Cyprus 0.31
Dominica 9.99
East African Community 2.33
Ecuador 7.53
Egypt 17.57 7.02
Ethiopia 2.50
Falkland Islands 0.16
Fiji 1.53
Gambia 5.15

Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990
Ghana 50.85 0.29
Gibraltar 0.79
Grenada 6.69
Guyana 30.68
Honduras 3.99
India 1564.16
Indonesia 39.85
Jamaica 54.91
Jordan 47.52
Kenya 67.58
Laos 0.03
Lesotho 0.40
Liberia 0.08
Malawi 30.70
Malaysia 12.18
Malta 0.19
Mauritius 8.35
Mozambique 21.81
Nepal 1.97
New Hebrides 0.10
Nicaragua 0.58
Nigeria 5.03
Pakistan 76.03
Paraguay 4.10
Peru 4.19
Philippines 5.48
St. Kitts 5.62
St. Lucia 5.00
St. Vincent 5.00
Senegal 1.07
Seychelles 11.14
Sierra Leone 10.35
Singapore 5.28
Solomon Islands 5.03
Sri Lanka 25.21
Sudan 9.87
Swaziland 11.04
Tanzania 3.40
Thailand 0.84
Tonga 1.46
Tunisia 0.28
Turkey 59.44
Uganda 22.09
Vietnam 0.20

Country Project Total commitment United Kingdom Contractor/Supplier
£ million
Colombia System X Digital Telecoms 4.939 GEC/Plessey
Egypt Maghara Coal Mine 0.080 Babcocks
India URI-Hydro 17.920 Boving and Co.
Indonesia Radio Studios 0.390 David Whittle Associates
Indonesia Aircraft Simulator 0.050 CAA
Indonesia Satellite Remote Sensing 0.025 Technology Applied Systems
Indonesia Cigading/Serpong Railway Rehabilitation 26.429 Davy/British Railway International
Indonesia Radio Studio Rehabilitation 5.040 Audix Ltd.
Jordan Reconstruction of TCC 0.793 BT Telecoms
Kenya Moi University 0.050 Cambridge Education Consultants
Kenya Digital Radio Link I 2.434 GEC
Kenya Digital Micro Wave Link 4.214 Telectron Systems
Morocco Gas Turbines 7.276 JBE
Morocco Diesel Electric Locos 6.300 Brush Electrical
Morocco Nador Steel Works Study 0.133 W. S.Atkins
Pakistan Karachi Water II 13.125 Portals Water Treatment
Philippines Gas Turbines Power Station 7.276 JBE
Red Sea Regional Hydro Carbon Study 0.187 Robertson Research International
Swaziland Fire Equipment 0.123 Carmichael Fire and Bulk
Tunisia Railway Equipment 0.572 Balfour Beatty
Tunisia Yarn and Fibre Plant 0.337 Extrusion Systems Ltd.
Turkey Natural Gas Conversion 62.470 AMEC International Construction
Total 160.163

Aid loans converted into grants Aid loans outstanding (principal) as at 1 August 1990
Western Samoa 0.20
Yemen 4.16
Zambia 45.16
Zimbabwe 22.90 23.65
Totals 1,013.01 430.12
1 An agreement signed in January 1979 provided for India to receive an amount of local cost aid equivalent to its payments in respect of old aid loans.