§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government will now press for suspended bilateral and multilateral aid to Kenya to be released.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydBritain has not suspended bilateral aid to Kenya. Our development assistance programme, worth £29 million in 1991–92 continues.
In common with other donors, we have withheld provision of new balance of payments assistance pending economic and political reforms. Recent progress on the political front has been commendable culminating in the multi-party elections held last month which we and international observers believe constituted a major step on the road to democracy. Economic progress will be examined in a forthcoming IMF review of Kenya's economic reform programme. We and other donors will take account of the outcome of this review in considering future policy.