HC Deb 18 May 1993 vol 225 c103W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the Overseas Development Administration's budget will be spent on aid and assistance to Africa, and to each other continent, in the current financial year.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Of the ODA's external assistance vote, as approved in the main supply estimates 1993–94, 36 per cent. is provided, within bilateral programmes, specifically for country programmes, including the aid and trade provision and bilateral assistance to central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

This proportion can be broken down by continent as follows:

Per cent.
Africa 44
America 8
Asia 39
Europe (including former Soviet Union) 8
Oceania 1