§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will list the projects currently receiving overseas aid assistance in(a) Hong Kong and (b) Singapore; [8718]
(2) how much (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral aid has been allocated to (a) Hong and Kong and (b) Singapore in each of the last three years. [8717]
§ Dr. Liam FoxBritish bilateral aid to Hong Kong and Singapore, as reported in "British Aid Statistics", consists of colonial pension payments, scholarships under the Commonwealth scholarship and fellow plan and, in the case of Hong Kong up to 1994–95, assistance via the396W British Red Cross and Save the Children Fund for Vietnamese boat people.
Such aid in the last three years totalled:
£000 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 Hong Kong 423 372 130 Singapore 233 225 238 Total multilateral aid, from the European Community and United Nations, in the last three years for which figures are available was as follows:
£000 1992 1993 1994 Hong Kong 13,300 12,100 11,100 Singapore 700 900 1,200 Of this, the estimated share attributable to the United Kingdom was:
£000 1992 1993 1994 Hong Kong 1,300 300 600 Singapore — 100 100