HC Deb 19 December 1995 vol 268 cc1068-71W
Mr. Gale

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will set out, by local authority, the amounts paid from reserves in Scotland to reduce the water rates in 1994–95 and 1995–96. [7224]

Mr. Kynoch

The information requested is contained in the following table:

ODA programme: top twenty bilateral recipients 1994–95
£ million:
Low income countries ODA programme bilateral aid (including emergency aid)
India 83
Bangladesh 46
Rwanda 45
Zambia 39
Malawi 39
Uganda 36
China 28
Kenya 28
Pakistan 28
Zimbabwe 27
Ethiopia 23
Indonesia 21
Mozambique 21

ODA programme: top twenty bilateral recipients 1994–95
£ million:
Low income countries ODA Programme bilateral aid (including emergency aid)
Tanzania 18
Nepal 15
Ghana 14
Sudan 12
Total 523
Percentage of total bilateral aid 46.7

Lower middle income countries ODA Programme bilateral aid (including emergency aid
States of ex-Yugoslavia 46
Russia 33
South Africa 16
Total 95
Percentage of total bilateral aid 8.5

Mr. Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the developing countries which are the direct recipients of aid from the United Kingdom indicating for the last available year the moneys paid in aid to each country, and the debt repayments made to the United Kingdom Government and United Kingdom banks. [6654]

Mr. Hanley

A list of developing countries showing the amount of aid granted to each country by the United Kingdom Government in financial year 1994–95 may be found in table 7 "Bilateral Aid by Country" in "Overseas Development Administration: British Aid Statistics 1990/91–1994/95", a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House of Commons.

Details of debt repayments made by developing countries to UK banks are commercially sensitive.

Debt service—principal and interest—paid to the United Kingdom Government by aid recipient countries during financial year 1994–95 on outstanding ODA and Export Credit Guarantees Department loans are given in the table.

Country ODA£ ECGD£ Total£
Africa: North of Sahara
Algeria 1,920,042 1.920,042
Egypt 14,145,740 14,145,740
Morocco 19,975,752 19,975,752
Tunisia 44,022 44,022
Africa: South of Sahara
Benin 234,682 234,682
Burkina Faso 196,244 196,244
Cameroon 45,455 45,455
Congo 468,501 468.501

Country ODA £ ECGD £ Total £
Cote d'Ivoire 525,389 66,888 592,277
Ethiopa 122.831 122,831
Gabon 3,437,359 3,437,359
Gambia 2,348,825 2,348,825
Ghana 1,608,185 1,608,185
Guinea 206,078 206,078
Kenya 6,003,267 6.003,267
Malawi 44,938 44,938
Mali 2,354,162 2,354,162
Mauritania 80,604 80,604
Mauritius 844,097 844,097
Mozambique 353,773 353,773
Nigeria 7,812,783 7,812,783
Senegal 17,240 17,240
Seychelles 502,844 502,844
Sierra Leone 95,254 95,254
Swaziland 948,465 948,465
Tanzania 2,020,041 2,020,041
Togo 17,876 17,876
Uganda 214.336 214,336
Zambia 2,469,803 2,469,803
Zimbabwe 1,690,763 1,690,763
America: Central
Mexico 12,080,897 12,080,897
Nicaragua 81,581 81,581
America: Caribbean
Antigua 180 180
Barbados 57,894 57,894
Belize 1,501,449 1,501,449
Cayman Islands 64,560 64,560
Dominica 957,700 957,700
Grenada 375,200 375,200
Guyana 366,587 366,587
Jamaica 5,322,391 215,483 5,537,874
St. Kitts 451,540 451,540
St. Lucia 333,400 333,400
St. Vincent 263,200 263,200
Trinidad and Tobago 1,459,383 1,459,383
America: South
Argentina 5,146,074 5,146,074
Bolivia 1,002,038 1,002,038
Brazil 92,733,382 92,733,382
Chile 113,949 113,949
Colombia 295,647 295,647
Ecuador 1,025,447 2,579,667 3,605,114
Falkland Islands 22,300 22,300
Paraguay 234,607 234,607
Peru 812,660 812,660
Asia: Middle East
Jordan 99,046 99,046
Asia: South
India 18,375,000 18,375,000
Asia: Far East
Indonesia 510,692 510,692
Malaysia 1,591,945 1,591,945
Philippines 826,010 9,782,354 10,608,364
Singapore 1,041,668 1,041,668
Thailand 74,533 74,533
Vietnam 650,907 650,907

Country ODA£ ECGD£ Total£
Europe: CEE/FSU Countries in Transition
Bulgaria 995,008 995,008
Poland 51,616,829 51,616,829
Russia 6.172,045 6,172,045
Europe: CEE/FSU Developing Countries
Croatia 1,649,628 1,649,628
Europe: Other Developing Countries
Cyprus 20,400 20,400
Gibraltar 86,526 86,526
Turkey 6,093,752 6,093,752
Oceania
Fiji 268,425 268,425
Kiribati 13,000 13,000
Solomon Islands 281,150 281,150
Tonga 77,240 77,240
Vanuatu 17,199 17,199