HC Deb 05 May 1998 vol 311 cc339-40W
Ms Drown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much debt was owed to the Department for International Development by each individual debtor country at 31 December 1997. [39668]

Clare Short

I have been asked to reply.

At 31 December 1997 a total of £160,777,000 was outstanding to my Department in the form of loans agreed under bilateral arrangements.

The following list shows the individual amounts due to be repaid.

Total bilateral debt outstanding at 31 December 1997
Country £
Brazil 2,569,000
Cameroon 67,000
Cayman Islands 265,000
Colombia 222,000
Costa Rica 1,434,000
Cyprus 161,000
Ecuador 12,421,000
Falkland Islands 7,000
Gibraltar 185,000
India 13,643,000
Jamaica1 47,347,000
Laos 4,000
Liberia 78,000

Total bilateral debt outstanding at 31 December 1997
Country £
Malaysia 3,814,000
Nigeria 4,929,000
Paraguay 2,109,000
Philippines 3,459,000
Seychelles 7,580,000
Solomon Islands 3,833,000
St. Kitts 3,023,000
St. Vincent 3,552,000
Swaziland 2,247,000
Turkey 34,318,000
Zimbabwe 13,510,000
Total 166,777,000
1Subject to review in April 1999