HC Deb 24 February 1994 vol 238 cc392-7W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aid and trade provision grants have been allocated to(a) Balfour Beatty, (b) Cementation, (c) John Laing, (d) NEI, (e) John Brown Engineering, (f) Biwater and (g) other large engineering firms in each of the last 10 years.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

All of the information requested is contained in the detailed list of ATP projects placed in the Library of the House in October 1993, pursuant to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary gave to the right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) on 28 October 1993 at column732.

Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list each of the countries that received British aid last year, with the amount of aid each received, the proportion of the total aid budget that constitutes and the placing the country occupies in an index of world poverty according to gross domestic product per capita; and how much each country received under the aid and trade provision(a) last year and (b) as an average over the previous five years at constant 1993 prices.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The information is as follows:

ODA Bilateral Programme 1992–93 As a percentage of the Total Bilateral Programme Aid and Trade Provision 1992–93 ATP average over the last 5 years at constant 1992–93 prices GNP per capita 1992
£000 £000 £000 US$
Nepal 13,718 1.32 0 0 170
Sierra Leone 1,978 0.19 0 0 170
Uganda 32,295 3.12 0 0 170
Bhutan 680 0.07 0 0 180
Burundi 205 0.02 0 0 210
Guinea-Bissau 9 0.00 0 0 210
Malawi 18,313 1.77 0 647 210
Bangladesh 57,739 5.57 0 0 220
Chad 291 0.03 0 0 220
Madagascar 734 0.07 0 0 230
Laos 70 0.01 0 0 250
Rwanda 312 0.03 0 0 250
Burkina Faso 345 0.03 0 0 290
Zambia 42,738 4.12 0 0 290
Mali 800 0.08 0 0 300
Niger 208 0.02 0 0 300
India 93,981 9.07 867 4,979 310
Nigeria 13,951 1.35 0 0 320
Guyana 2,873 0.28 0 0 330
Kenya 32,294 3.12 3 6,544 330
China 34,920 3.37 26,471 18,480 380
Gambia 4,394 0.42 0 0 390
Togo 115 0.01 0 0 400
Benin 109 0.01 0 0 410
Central African Republic 16 0.00 0 0 410
Nicaragua 1,008 0.10 0 0 410
Pakistan 18,619 1.80 1,447 739 410
Ghana 29,323 2.83 8,254 3,516 450
Tajikistan 100 0.01 0 0 480
Maldives 678 0.07 0 0 500
Comoro Islands 26 0.00 0 0 510
Guinea 400 0.04 0 0 510
Mauritania 109 0.01 0 0 530
Sri Lanka 8,480 0.82 573 3,008 540
Zimbabwe 39,171 3.78 2,924 8,738 570
Honduras 1,887 0.18 0 0 580
Lesotho 7,194 0.69 0 0 590
Egypt 7,599 0.73 1,122 3,070 630
Indonesia 21,872 2.11 9,778 6,742 670
Ivory Coast 487 0.05 0 0 670
Bolivia 3,458 0.33 0 0 680
Kiribati 1,169 0.11 0 0 700
Solomon Islands 2,357 0.23 0 0 710
Philippines 9,038 0.87 7,741 5,093 770
Senegal 965 0.09 0 0 780
Cameroon 3,351 0.32 0 79 820
Cape Verde 97 0.01 0 0 850
Uzbekistan 267 0.03 0 0 860
Western Samoa 112 0.01 0 0 940
Papua New Guinea 198 0.02 0 0 950
Peru 1,983 0.19 0 6 950
Guatemala 122 0.01 0 0 980
Congo 281 0.03 0 0 1,030
Dominican Republic 55 0.01 0 0 1,040
Morocco 2,118 0.20 1,462 2,980 1,040
Ecuador 1,684 0.16 0 0 1,070
Swaziland 3,274 0.32 0 29 1,080
Jordan 4,249 0.41 472 508 1,120
El Salvador 192 0.02 0 0 1,170
Vanuatu 3,963 0.38 0 0 1,220
Colombia 1,413 0.14 314 935 1,290
Jamaica 3,046 0.29 0 0 1,340
Paraguay 629 0.06 0 0 1,340
Tonga 177 0.02 0 0 1,350
Namibia 3,637 0.35 0 0 1,610
Tunisia 285 0.03 25 416 1,740
Algeria 377 0.04 0 0 1,830
Thailand 2,135 0.21 200 1,677 1,840
Turkey 9,276 0.90 9,030 6,560 1,950
St. Vincent and Grenadines 871 0.08 0 0 1,990
Costa Rica 976 0.09 0 0 2,000
Fiji 2,359 0.23 0 0 2,010
Iran 159 0.02 0 0 2,190
Belize 4,458 0.43 0 0 2,210

ODA Bilateral Programme 1992–93 As a percentage of the Total Bilateral Programme Aid and Trade Provision 1992–93 A TP average over the last 5 years at constant 1992–93 prices GNP per capita 1992
£000 £000 £000 US$
Grenada 1,519 0.15 0 0 2,310
Panama 845 0.08 641 695 2,440
Dominica 2,907 0.28 0 0 2,520
South Africa 11,709 1.13 0 0 2,670
Mauritius 1,545 0.15 0 65 2,700
Chile 988 0.10 0 0 2,730
Brazil 4,332 0.42 0 0 2,770
Botswana 6,129 0.59 549 592 2,790
Malaysia 20,463 1.97 17,798 12,194 2,790
St. Lucia 2,320 0.22 0 0 2,900
Venezuela 163 0.02 0 0 2,900
Uruguay 168 0.02 0 0 3,340
Mexico 2,272 0.22 0 0 3,470
Surinam 10 0.00 0 0 3,700
Trinidad and Tobago 341 0.03 0 0 3,940
St Kitts—Nevis 1,953 0.19 0 0 3,990
Gabon 9 0.00 0 0 4,450
Antigua and Barbuda 1,121 0.11 0 0 4,870
Seychelles 1,064 0.10 0 34 5,480
Argentina 90 0.01 0 0 6,050
Slovenia 45 0.00 0 0 6,330
Oman 750 0.07 0 0 6,490
Barbados 355 0.03 0 0 6,530
Cyprus 910 0.09 449 306 9,820
Bahamas 188 0.02 0 0 12,020
Israel 8 0.00 0 0 13,230
Hong Kong 359 0.03 0 0 15,380
Singapore 248 0.02 0 0 15,750
Afghanistan 2,171 0.21 0 0 1n/a
Albania 394 0.04 0 0 n/a
Angola 1,824 0.18 0 0 n/a
Anguilla 2,080 0.20 0 0 n/a
Bermuda 12 0.00 0 0 n/a
British Virgin Islands 1,125 0.11 0 0 n/a
Brunei 6 0.00 0 0 n/a
Burma 79 0.01 0 82 1n/a
Cambodia 2,066 0.20 0 0 1n/a
Caribbean 2,773 0.27 0 0 n/a
Cayman Islands 119 0.01 0 0 n/a
Cook Islands 50 0.00 0 0 n/a
Cuba 9 0.00 0 0 n/a
Djibouti 55 0.01 0 1 n/a
Eritrea 1,979 0.19 0 0 n/a
Falkland Islands 58 0.01 0 0 n/a
Francophone Africa 17 0.00 0 0 n/a
Gibraltar 1,676 0.16 0 0 n/a
Haiti 97 0.01 0 0 1n/a
Iraq 3.485 0.34 0 0 n/a
Lebanon 245 0.02 0 0 n/a
Liberia 416 0.04 0 0 n/a
Malta 224 0.02 0 0 n/a
Mongolia 740 0.07 0 0 n/a
Montserrat 3,271 0.32 0 0 n/a
Pitcaim Islands 56 0.01 0 0 n/a
SADCC 6,001 0.58 0 0 n/a
Somalia 15,047 1.45 0 0 1n/a
South Pacific 6 0.00 0 0 n/a
St. Helena 8,654 0.84 0 0 n/a
Sudan 8,888 0.86 0 0 1n/a
Syria 16 0.00 0 0 n/a
Tristan da Cunha 406 0.04 0 0 n/a
Turks and Caicos Islands 8,009 0.77 0 0 n/a
Tuvalu 109 0.01 0 0 1n/a
Vietnam 2,313 0.22 0 0 1n/a
West Bank and Gaza 1,530 0.15 0 0 n/a
Windward Islands 352 0.03 0 0 n/a
Yemen 7,683 0.74 2,856 1,061 1n/a
Former Yugoslavia 19,321 186 0 0 n/a
Zaire 265 3 0 0 1n/a
Regional Allocations
Africa Regional 2,393 0.23 96 65 0
America Regional 1,064 0.10 0 0 0
Asia Regional 2,245 0.22 0 0 0

ODA Bilateral Programme 1992–93 As a percentage of the Total Bilateral Programme Aid and Trade Provision 1992–93 ATP average over the last 5 years at constant 1992–93 prices GNP per capita 1992
£000 £000 £000 US$
East African Community 961 0.09 0 0 0
Middle East 117 0.01 0 0 0
Oceania Regional 2,004 0.19 0 0 0
CDC Exchequer Advances 75,000 7.24 0 0
World Unallocated 156,187 15.08 422 253
Total 1,035,792 100.00 93,493 90,095
1 Published World Bank figures were not available. Other sources have been used to define this as a Low Income Country according to the DAC GNP per capita thresholds.

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