§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of British jobs in the United Kingdom and abroad, which have been secured as a result of ODA-funded projects in the most recent period for which figures are available. [23925]
§ Mr. Baldry[pursuant to his reply, 22 May, c. 397]: The reply should have read:
An indirect benefit of aid and the economic development that this promotes is indeed that jobs can be created in this country and abroad but there is no ready means of assessing how many or at what cost.