§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what grants have been made by his Department's Overseas Development Administration since 1979 to support (i) energy efficiency, (ii) nuclear power and (iii) pollution abatement in industrially developing nations.
§ Mrs. Chalker[holding answer 14 February 1992]: I have placed in the Libraries of the House lists of grants funded by the Overseas Development Administration from 1980 to 1990 in the fields of energy efficiency and pollution abatement. No grants in the nuclear power sector were made. Records available, which cover capital grants for the whole period and technical co-operation grants from 1988 only, show that during the period a total of approximately £26 million has been spent on pollution abatement projects and approximately £234 million on energy efficiency-related projects.