Overseas Aid Budget

HC Deb 19 January 1996 vol 269 cc784-5W

Mr. Chris Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the programmes within the overseas aid budget which will be affected by real expenditure reductions in 1996–97 and the following two years; and by how much each programme will be reduced. [10308]

Mr. Hanley

Planning figures for the period 1996–97 to 1998–99 are being finalised. As usual, the main details of our planned expenditure for this period will be published in the 1996 FCO departmental report in March.