HC Deb 02 December 1997 vol 302 cc133-4W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on the level of(a) UK bi-lateral aid and (b) multi-lateral aid funded in part by Her Majesty's Government in each of the last two years to (i) Armenia, (ii) Azerbaijan and (iii) Georgia. [18361]

Mr. Foulkes

The levels of bilateral and estimated multilateral aid to Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia during the last two years are as set out below:

(a) Total bilateral aid
£thousand
1995–96 1996–97
Armenia 546 1,122
Azerbaijan 1,651 1,093
Georgia 1,517 1,851

(b) UK share of net Multilateral disbursements.

Net Official Development Assistance (oda) is an internationally comparable aid statistics and it is available only by calendar year. Multilateral figures are estimates of the UK share through multilateral agencies.

Latest available information is for 1995.

£ million
Armenia 6.1
Azerbaijan 4.6
Georgia 6.2