Export Credits Guarantee Department (Hansard, 20 July 1994)

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether guidelines similar to the Overseas Development Administration good government criteria are applied in the offering of Export Credits Guarantee Department cover; and how much the ECGD liaises with the ODA on such issues.

§ Mr. Needham
I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 12 April,Official Report, column 111. ECGD liaises with ODA on cases where aid is involved and ODA' s good government criteria are therefore relevant.

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to the answer of the Secretary of State for Defence of 11 January,Official Report, column 168–9, what was the size of the line of export credit to Jordan.

§ Mr. Needham
ECGD provided guarantees for export credit loans of up to £236 million for two defence lines of credit to Jordan, signed in 1986 and 1987 respectively, which could be used to support contracts totalling up to £310 million.

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total cost of ECGD's fixed-rate export finance scheme in each of the last five years.

§ Mr. Needham
The cost of the scheme in each of the last five years was as follows, in round millions: 331W

Year £ million

1989–90 349

1990–91 413

1991–92 237

1992–93 111

1993–94 ¹Minus 53

¹ Provisional

Year	£ million
1989–90	349
1990–91	413
1991–92	237
1992–93	111
1993–94	¹Minus 53
¹ Provisional