HC Deb 22 February 1999 vol 326 c15W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the amounts of British aid to Zimbabwe for each of the last 10 years, the projects for which it has been assigned and the conditions attached to it. [70588]

Clare Short

Total Overseas Development Administration (ODA) and the Department for International Development (DFID) aid to Zimbabwe in each of the last 10 years was:

Year £000
1987–88 11,708
1988–89 15,278
1989–90 13,373
1990–91 28,937
1991–92 36,682
1992–93 39,172
1993–94 24,560
1994–95 27,343
1995–96 14,804
1996–97 11,057
1997–98 12,215

ODA and DFID funded 170 projects (including Joint Funding Scheme projects cofinanced with British NGOs) in the last 10 years over the value of £100,000. I will place a list in the Library of the House.

Specific conditions are not attached to country programmes. Individual projects are appraised and funded in the context of agreed country strategies and may have specific conditions attached, to ensure the project will be effective and sustainable.