HL Deb 15 December 1997 vol 584 c61WA
Lord Lucas

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What was the level of Department for International Development/Overseas Development Administration spending on the Joint Financing Programme with Non-Governmental Organisations allocated to— (a) family planning and reproductive health; (b) preventive health care and (c) the provision of primary health centres, specifying in each case the distribution of spending between: (i) sub-Saharan Africa; (ii) the Middle East; (iii) South America; (iv) Central America; (v) South Asia; (vi) South-East Asia; (vii) the Caribbean; and (viii) the Pacific in each case for the financial years 1993–94; 1994–95; 1995–96; and 1996–97.

Lord Whitty

The following table provides details of the Department for International Development's spending through the Joint Funding Scheme on UK NGOs' health and population/family planning projects by continent. The figures provided do not include spending on integrated development projects which may have health/population/family planning components.

As information is not held centrally in the subject/geographical format requested, a full answer to

1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Total Education Spending (£ million) 112.4 113.7 106.8 108.4
of which:
Africa: South of Sahara 31.3 28.2 25.5 25.5
Asia: Middle East 1.9 1.3 1.0 1.8
America: South 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.3
America: Central 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3
Asia: South 13.3 10.5 14.5 15.9
America: Caribbean 4.8 4.6 2.4 3.4
Pacific 2.0 2.6 1.6 2.2