HC Deb 31 January 1994 vol 236 cc497-8W
Ms Glenda Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all bilateral and multilateral assistance given by the Overseas Development Administration to help the development of textile and clothing industries and the amounts given in the period since 1988.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 24 January 1994]: Bilateral aid for the development of textiles and clothing—and investment by the Commonwealth Development Corporation—is shown in a table which I have arranged to be placed in the Libraries of both Houses. There is no centrally compiled source of data on aid for textiles and clothing provided by various multilateral

Private consultancy work awarded in 1992 and 1993
Year Consultants Service required Value £000s
(a) Accountancy firms
1992 KPMG Peat Marwick IS strategy support to Vehicle Inspectorate 90
1992 KPMG Peat Marwick Rail privatisation: accountancy and taxation advice 1,702
1992 Price Waterhouse Preparation of DVOIT Long Form Report 52
1992 Price Waterhouse Advice on taxation and company cars 6
1992 Cooper and Lybrand Temporary finance director 52

agencies. Information on these agencies' support—and thus on ODA's share of this—could be provided only at disproportionate cost.