HC Deb 21 January 1991 vol 184 cc39-42W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will commission an independent survey on the effectiveness of the United Kingdom aid programme.

Mrs. Chalker

We regularly commission independent outside evaluators to work alongside our own evaluation department on studying the effectiveness of particular aspects of the aid programme. The results of around 50 studies completed over the last three years are available.

The development assistance committee—DAC—of the OECD also reviews the aid programmes of its members on a regular basis. A review of the United Kingdom aid programme is currently under way and the conclusions of the DAC will be announced in April.

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was United Kingdom per capita aid in each of the last five years to (a) Sudan, (b) Ethiopia, (c) Angola, (d) Mozambique and (e) Liberia.

Mrs. Chalker

The information is as follows:

United Kingdom gross bilateral aid (including emergency relief aid) per capita (£ actual) 1985–89 to Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique and Sudan
19851 1986 1987 1988 19892
Angola 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.14
Ethiopia 0.67 0.22 0.21 0.40 0.25
Liberia 0.50 0.40 0.39 0.36 0.26
Mozambique 0.62 0.52 1.63 2.01 1.50
Sudan 1.98 1.15 0.88 1.09 1.32
1 Based on 1984 population figures.
2 Based on 1988 population figures.

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total of aid from the United Kingdom since 1987 to(a) each Latin American nation and (b) each (i) north, (ii) west, (iii) southern, (iv) central and (v) eastern African nation.

Mrs. Chalker

Following are the available figures:

Total Gross Bilateral United Kingdom Aid 1987–1989
Country £,000s
AFRICA: North
Algeria 1,160
Egypt 37,471
Morocco 1,313
Tunisia 2,062
AFRICA: Sub-Saharan
Angola 2,077
Benin 808
Botswana 27,924
Burkina Faso 752
Burundi 358
Cameroon 17,205
Cape Verde Islands 152
C.A.R. 85
Chad 658
Comoros 8
Congo 701
Djibouti 383
Equatorial Guinea 306
Ethiopia 39,523
Gabon 64
Gambia 18,491
Ghana 103,335
Guinea 1,564
Guinea-Bissau 122
Ivory Coast 20,496
Kenya 132,291
Lesotho 14,854
Liberia 2,383
Madagascar 1,310
Malawi 114,603
Mali 3,437
Mauritania 515
Mauritius 26,723
Mozambique 76,410
Namibia 4,545
Niger 675
Nigeria 77,768
Rwanda 799
Sao Tome and Principe 16
Senegal 5,637
Seychelles 4,580
Sierra Leone 9,115
Somalia 19,201
South Africa 10,637
Sudan 77,889
Swaziland 14,692
Tanzania 101,156

Country £,000s
Togo 679
Uganda 69,556
Zaire 4,437
Zambia 52,100
Zimbabwe 57,880
AMERICA: Central
Costa Rica 10,151
Cuba 5
Dominican Republic 173
E1 Salvador 709
Guatemala 61
Haiti 10
Honduras 2,678
Mexico 3,055
Nicaragua 241
Panama 1,777
AMERICA: South
Bolivia 8,848
Brazil 4,559
Chile 799
Colombia 4,554
Ecuador 5,209
Paraguay 1,105
Peru 3,461
Surinam 17
Uruguay 57
Venezuela 56

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing the level of United Kingdom bilateral aid since 1987 to the 20 poorest nations as measured by GDP: and what information he has as to the percentage this aid represents of the total aid received by that nation in each case.

Mrs. Chalker

The information for 1987 and 1988 is as follows:

United Kingdom bilateral ODA £'000 Percentage of total ODA receipts (including multilateral aid)
Cambodia 100 0.6
Afghanistan 1,932 2.8
Vietnam 0 0.0
Mozambique 51,478 5.7
Ethiopia 27,413 3.0
Bhutan 682 1.4
Guinea.Bissau 81 0.1
Tanzania 59,194 5.3
Chad 431 0.2
Malawi 49,541 13.1
Bangladesh 75,656 4.0
Zaire 3,709 0.5
Nepal 20,817 4.7
Somalia 13,906 2.4
Madagascar 994 0.3
Laos 162 0.2
Burma 6,909 1.4
Gambia 12,559 5.8
Mali 2,281 0.5
Burundi 206 0.1
Total 328,051 3.4

Notes:

(1) These figures are for net official development assistance (oda).

(2) The figures in the left-hand column are for United Kingdom bilateral aid only, and thus do not include the United Kingdom share of multilateral aid to these countries, which is included in the total oda receipts figure which forms the basis of the right-hand column.

(3) The figures include official development assistance recorded in 1987 and 1988: figures for other donors for 1989 are not yet available in this form.

Sources: British Aid Statistics: United Kingdom aid.

OECD: Total oda receipts.

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total level of aid, broken down by continent, formally requested of the United Kingdom over the past 12 months; and how much of this total was agreed to.

Mrs. Chalker

Formal requests for specified amounts of British aid are rarely received. We are in regular consultation with the main recipients of bilateral aid about the amounts of British aid that might be made available and the purposes for which it might be used.

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries in Asia and the middle east were beneficiaries of funds from the aid and trade provision in the last year.

Mrs. Chalker

In 1990, spending under the aid and trade provision took place in respect of projects in the following countries:

Asia

  • Burma
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka
  • Thailand

Middle East

  • Jordan
  • Yemen Arab Republic

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