§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer on 7 February,Official Report, column 67, if he will give further details of the water projects in Nigeria funded by the Overseas Development Administration since 1980 giving the dates the funding started, the amounts of funding involved, whether the funding was under the aid and trade provision, and which British companies won the contracts in each case.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydBefore 1988–89 British aid to Nigeria was confined to technical co-operation of about £3 million a year centred on small education and training initiatives. Nigeria has received no assistance under the aid and trade provision.
The following is the only water project to be funded by ODA since 1988–89:
Project Starling date Aid funding £ million United Kingdom company Site investigations, training and supervision of minor remedial work on Tiga dam, Kano state 1990 0.21 Babtie, Shaw and Morton
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer on 7 February,Official Report, column 67, if he will give further details of the power projects in Nigeria funded by the Overseas Development Administration since 1980 giving the dates the funding started, the amounts of funding involved, whether the funding was under the aid and trade provision, and which British companies won the contracts in each case.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydBefore 1988–89 British aid to Nigeria was confined to technical co-operation of about £3 million a year centred on small education and training initiatives. Nigeria has received no assistance under the aid and trade provision.
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Power projects funded by ODA since 1988–89 are as follows: Project Starting date Aid funding £ million United Kingdom Company Institutional Strengthening of National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) 1989 8.5 British Electric International. Northern Ireland Electricity (since April 1993). Review of requirements of Petroleum Training Institute, Warri 1990 0.02 College of Petroleum Studies
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer on 7 February,Official Report, column 67, if he will give further details of the power projects in Nigeria funded by the Overseas Development Administration
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydSince 1990 ODA has periodically funded the United Kingdom training of Nigerian drug law enforcement officers on courses arranged by the Home Office and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. Cost to date are about £60,000.
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer on 7 February,Official Report, column 67, if he will give further details of the public administration projects in Nigeria funded by the Overseas Development Administration since 1980 giving the dates the funding started, the amounts of funding involved, whether the funding was under the aid and trade provision, and which British companies won the contracts in each case.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydBefore 1988–89 British aid to Nigeria was confined to technical co-operation of about £3 million a year centred on small education and training initiatives. Nigeria has received no assistance under the aid and trade provision.
Public administration projects funded by ODA since 1988–89 are as follows:
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Project Starting date Aid funding £ million United Kingdom company Institutional development of the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) 1988 1.400 Critical Skills Development. Aston University. Crown Agents. Assistance with civil service reform in core departments. 1989 0.815 Thames Valley University. Help with in-servcie training at the Institute of Administration (IOA), Ahmadu Bello University 1989 0.400 Birmingham University. Institutional strengthening of the Centre for Management Development (CMD) 1990 0.715 Hull University
Project Starting date Aid funding £ million United Kingdom company Help in establishing new Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) 1989 0.145 Environmental Resources Limited Provision of team member for World Bank poverty assessment 1993 0.120 Singleton Consultant
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer on 7 February,Official Report, column 67, if he will give further details of the police training provided to in Nigeria funded by the Overseas Development Administration.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydSince 1991 ODA has committed £1 million to helping with the establishment of a central planning unit at Jos, the training of Nigerian police force, NPF, officers to manage it and help with the reorganisation of the NPF detective training school at Enugu. British police officers have been involved.