§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide a table showing how much of the assistance which was given by the United Kingdom to Somalia in each of the last 10 years768W went to the northern region known as the Republic of Somaliland, giving the figure and percentage of the total given (a) in humanitarian aid, whether by cash grant or in kind, (b) in development aid, whether by cash grant or in kind, (c) loans and (d) in any other form in each year.
§ Mr. Lennox-Boyd[holding answer 24 November 1992]: I refer the hon. Member to my answer to his question of 769W Monday 23 November, at column 453, which gave a financial summary of our assistance to Somalia for each of the past 10 years. Aid is given to the country as a whole and statistics showing expenditure by region are not readily available.