§ Mr. FoulkesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the contracts or work done by the British Geological Survey paid for by the Overseas Development Administration, the nature of the work, and the cost in each case; what arrangements need to be made to continue these programmes if the survey is privatised; and if he will make a statement. [14113]
§ Mr. Hanley[pursuant to his reply, 8 February 1996, c. 300]: Listed is an update of the current contracts which the British Geological Survey has with ODA:
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Contract Country Value £ Yaoba Oasis Environmental Project (hydrogeological consultants) China 186,688 Establishment of a Coastal Geology Unit (IT training) Albania 78,525 Water Resources Management, Lake Balkhash (environmental impact study) Kazakhstan 26,046 Primoyre Mineral Waters (water sampling) Russia 24,973 Environmental Thematic Mapping Slovakia 36,500 Resource Centre scheme With ODA (call down contracts for ad hoc consultancy work) Global 75,000 592W
Contract Country Value £ Bapedal Groundwater Project (monitoring consultancy) Indonesia 39,200 World Bank Mining and Environmental Project (geological information mapping programme) Ecuador 2,319,282 Coal Bed Methane Pre-feasibility Study Bangladesh 44,500 Land-Ocean Contaminant Study Mexico/Africa/Indonesia 434,939 Mitigation of Mining Related Mercury Pollution Hazards Philippines/Ecuador 1218,513 Protecting Groundwater Beneath Wastewater Recharge Sites Mexico/Thailand 207,271 Groundwater Management in Drought Prone Areas of Africa Africa 142,527 Development New Well Siting Techniques Zimbabwe/Egypt 203,822 Groundwater Resources Degradation; Socio-Economic Impacts and their Mitigation China/India/Thailand/Mexico/Jersey/Palestinian Territories 242,060 Mineral Information Databases in Developing Countries3 Guyana/Zimbabwe 112,240 Groundwater Development in Alluvial Aquifers3 Pakistan/Fiji 661,661 WHO: Groundwater Quality Assessment and Protection3 UK/various overseas especially Asia 79,699 Geoscience Database for Coastal Zone Management3 Various/East and South East Asia 82,210 Data Management Systems for Groundwater for Developing Countries3 Regional 57,720 Study of Pollution Risk to Deep Groundwater from Urban Wastewater3 Regional 222,230 African Workshop in Water Resources3 Regional 62,510 Minerals for Development Workshops3 Brazil/Egypt/Zambia/ Vietnam 79,538 Procedures for the Rapid Assessment of Limestone Resources3 Thailand/Egypt 154,778 Prediction and Remediation of Human Selenium Imbalances3 China/Sri Lanka 280,214 Cerium and Endomyocardial Fibrosis in Tropical Terrains3 Uganda 235,965 Geological Surveys in Developing Countries Strategies for Assistance3 United Kingdom 53,888 Potential for Aquaculture using Saline Groundwater3 Various 92,338
Contract Country Value £ World Bank Paper on Urban Groundwater Management Strategies3 United Kingdom and overseas sites 53,153 Report Reproduction and Dissemination3 United Kingdom 10,001 Earthworks3 United Kingdom 37,745 1 Indicates a change of figure 2 Joint research project with the Natural Resources Institute 3 Indicates an additional contract. If the BGS is privatised, the arrangements for continuing these programmes would be reviewed at the time. One option would be to transfer the contracts to the new owner.