§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which are the poorest 20 countries in the world; and what has happened to their bilateral aid allocations since 1979.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe United Kingdom's gross bilateral aid to the 20 countries with the lowest gross national product per capita in 1992, on the basis of figures just issued by the World bank, are given. This list excludes countries for which incomes data are not available. The United Kingdom's gross bilateral aid to each of these countries in 1979 and in 1992–93 includes financial and technical assistance, food aid and disaster relief, debt relief and loans and equity investment by the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
£000's 1979 1992–93 Mozambique 6,369 34,141 Ethiopia 2,877 18,022 Tanzania 23,559 62,370 Uganda 2,212 34,521 Sierra Leone 1,829 6,382 Nepal 11,054 13,841 Bhutan 24 680 Cambodia 703 2,066 Guinea-Bissau 173 9 Burundi 17 205 Malawi 23,314 26,823 Bangladesh 33,687 65,717 Chad 45 291 Madagascar 100 936 Rwanda 2 312 Laos 29 94 Zambia 29,159 47,974 Burkina Faso 24 345 Mali 489 1,223 Niger 912 373