§ Lord Juddasked Her Majesty's Government:
What percentage of their official bilateral governmental overseas aid in each of the years 1988–89 to 1995–96 inclusive was spent on the world's least developed countries.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThe percentage of UK official bilateral overseas aid spent on the world's least developed countries (as included in the UN definition) is shown in the table below. This category does not include some of the world's poorest countries where the UK also maintains substantial bilateral aid programmes (e.g. India).
Percentage to LLDC 1988–89 34 1989–90 26 1990–91 31 1991–92 26 1992–93 28 1993–94 28 1994–95 32 1995–96 27 Note:
1995–96 figures are provisional until the publication of British Aid Statistics 1996.