§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all payments made by the Overseas Development Administration in relation to the Pergau dam project, with the dates they were made and the amount of the payment made in each case.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe Overseas Development Administration has made over 200 payments in respect of this project since signature of the financial intergovernmental arrangement in July 1991. These fall into two categories:(a) interest rate support payments made to the Export Credits Guarantee Department to reduce the interest rate charged by the lending banks and (b) payments to consultants for technical, financial and environmental monitoring of the project. The cost of (a) has been: 1991–92, £1.882 million; 1992–93, £7.835 million; 1993–94, £14.650 million. The cost of (b) has been 1991–92, £0.039 million; 1992–93, £0.210 million; 1993–94, £0.170 million.
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) on what date the contract was signed between Her Majesty's Government and the Malaysian Electricity Company for funding of the Pergau project;
(2) on what date the formal agreement to finance the Pergau project was signed by Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Malaysia.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe Government are not party to the contract between the contractor and Tenaga Nasional Berhad for this project. Her Majesty's Government signed a financial arrangement with the Malaysian Government in respect of the project on 8 July 1991.