§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much and what percentage of official United Kingdom aid was spent on(a) basic needs and (b) direct poverty reduction between 1990 and the latest year for which figures are available. [9115]
§ Mr. Hanley(a) The following table gives the requested breakdown of bilateral ODA programme expenditure on basic needs' both including and excluding bilateral emergency aid.
Including emergency aid Excluding emergency aid £ million Share of total bilateral aid Percentage £ million Share of total bilateral aid2 Percentage 1990–91 133.9 12.8 73.8 7.5 1991–92 218.5 20.3 80.1 8.6 1992–93 230.3 20.5 87.5 8.9 1993–94 279.1 24.2 99.5 10.2 1994–95 303.3 27.1 94.4 10.4 1 Comprises basic education, primary health care, mother/child health, family planning, nutrition, water and sanitation, and block grants to NGOs. 2 Total bilateral aid excluding emergency aid. Expenditure on UK aid for direct poverty reduction can be identified only for that part of ODA expenditure which is covered by the ODA policy information marker system1—PIMS. The following table gives a breakdown of ODA expenditure which has a direct assistance to poor people marker on the PIMS system along with emergency aid which is counted as direct assistance to poor people although it is not PIMS marked.