§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral statement of 13 December,Official Report, columns 773–74, on the Pergau dam, if he will set out in detail the grounds on which each of the aid and trade provision projects in (a) Turkey, (b) Botswana and (c) Indonesia raised legal difficulties following the High Court judgment.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 20 December 1994]: I refer the hon. member to the replies I gave the hon. member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) today.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral statement of 13 December,Official Report, columns 773–74, on the Pergau dam, if he will set out the criteria used by the ODA to determine which aid and trade provision projects did not comply with the High Court judgment on Pergau.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 20 December 1994]: The ODA, in co-operation with the National Audit Office, examined all current aid and trade provision soft loan and mixed credit projects to determine whether an appropriate test of developmental soundness was taken into account in each case, whether the projects on which payments are currently being made meet the relevant developmental test and whether the decision-making process gave sufficient prominence to developmental factors, while taking account of other factors such as political and commercial interests