HC Deb 17 October 1991 vol 196 cc209-10W
Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to the reply of 16 May,Official Report, column 233, to the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde, if he will list for each of the past 10 years, and as a total over the same period, the total amount included in the bilateral aid programme for sports and recreation projects expressed as (a) a total amount and (b) a percentage of the total bilateral aid programme.

Mrs. Chalker

Bilateral aid for sports and recreation purposes has been very limited and the amounts involved very small; the help has mostly taken the form of small grants made on an ad hoc basis to governments and non-government groups. It would require considerable time and disproportionate cost to assemble the information required.

(2) what percentage of 18-year-olds entered higher education in each year since 1979.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The available information is given in the table. Information on the numbers of young people entering higher education before 1984–85 could he obtained only at disproportionate cost.