HC Deb 09 May 1994 vol 243 cc29-31W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects in China which received technical co-operation assistance from Her Majesty's Government in 1992–93 together with the amount allocated to each project and the organisations receiving the funds.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 3 May 1994]: Listed are those projects in China which received more than £20,000 of technical co-operation assistance with the expenditure per project in 1992–93 and the organisations involved:

Project Title Figures in £s millions
English Language Teaching Programme (British Council) 1.28
Sino-British Friendship Scholarship Scheme (British Council) 1.37
Technical Co-operation Training Programme (British Council) 2.76
Royal Fellowships Scheme (Royal Society) 0.10
Forestry Project (various) 0.13
Support for projects under the Agricultural Memorandum of Understanding (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 0.06
Transport Planning Study for Peking (The MVA Consultancy) 0.09
Energy Conservation in Buildings for Peking (Building Research Establishment) 0.10
Water Quality Monitoring study for Chongqing (Binnie and Partners) 0.02
Control of Air Pollution Study for Chongqing (Environmental Resource Management) 0.06
Investment Techniques for Project Appraisal (Crown Agents) 0.18
Shanghai Water Management Study (Mott MacDonald) 0.05
Shanghai Environment Project (Mott MacDonald) 0.95
Computer Management Training for Coal (British Coal) 0.03
Energy Efficiency and Demonstration Project for Taiyuan (Coal Research Establishment) 0.51
Solid Waste Disposal Study for Tianjin (Binnie and Partners) 0.07
Pollution Control Study of the Grand Canal at Wuxi (Watson Hawksley Ltd.) 0.19
Resettlement Studies (The World Bank) 0.06
China Council for International Co-operation on Environment and Development Pricing Policy Working Group (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) 0.03
Training for Xinhua News Agency (Thomson Foundation) 0.02
Remote Sensing Data Acquisition (Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick) 0.03
Support for projects under Heads of Mission Small Projects Scheme (British Embassy, Peking) 0.04

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects and organisations in China which received aid and trade assistance from Her Majesty's Government together with the amount allocated in each case.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 3 May 1994]: Listed are those projects in China which received aid and trade assistance in 1992–93 with the organisations involved and the expenditure per project in 1992–93:

Project Title Figures in £s millions
Urban Traffic Control System for Peking (Plessey Controls Ltd) 0.01
Chongqing Tyre Factory (Dunlop International Projects Ltd) 0.12
Modernisation of Peking Subway (Balfour Beatty Ltd) 1.70
Danyang Aluminium Plant (Davy McKee (Poole) Ltd) 1.82
Cotton Textile Mills (Platt Saco Lowell (UK) Ltd) 0.22
Shanghai Telecommunications (GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd) 0.45
Duck Processing Plants (APV Baker Ltd) 1.11
Flour and Feed Mills (Robinson Milling Systems Ltd) 1.00
Pre-stressed Concrete Wire (Marshall Richards Barcro Ltd) 0.68
Dalian Power Station (Gibson Wells Engineering Ltd) 1.40
Fushun Power Station (Gibson Wells Engineering Ltd) 5.11
Training of operators for Yue Yang Power Station (GEC Alsthom) 0.45
Container ships for COSCO (British Shipbuilders) 1.11
Yue Yang Power Station (GEC Turbine Generators Ltd) 7.38
Bohai Aluminium Plant (Davy McKee (Poole) Ltd) 0.99
Dushanzi Ethylene Complex (Snamprogetti Ltd) 1.45
Urumqi Pure Terephthalic Acid Plant (Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd) 0.48
Urumqi Para-xylene Plant (Babcock contractors Ltd) 0.16
Traffic Study for Peking (The MVA Consultancy) 0.06
Training and advisory Services for Peking Subway (Balfour Beatty Ltd) 0.62

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