§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if it is the practice of his Department to conduct an annual opinion poll on the public's attitude to overseas aid and development; what were the results of this survey in the latest year for which figures are available; and where they can be seen.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydIt is not the practice of the Department to conduct an annual opinion poll on the public's attitude to overseas aid.
§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a list by country of all projects currently being funded from the British bilateral aid programme, detailing project title, expected duration and main objectives.
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§ Mr. Lennox-BoydNearly 4,000 projects, many very small, are currently being funded by the Overseas Development Administration from the bilateral aid programme. It would be disproportionately expensive to list for each of them the data sought by the hon. Member.
Aggregated information on the main objectives of projects will be published in the "Foreign and Commonwealth Office Departmental Report 1994".
Some details of the major projects in a range of countries are available in the partners in development booklets published by the ODA. These and a list of projects funded from the know-how fund for eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union are in the Libraries of the House.