HC Deb 02 March 1999 vol 326 cc639-40W
Mr. Ben Chapman

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the(a) amount and (b) proportion of overall Government expenditure that Mozambique will pay in servicing its debt in the year following its Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative completion point. [71393]

Ms Hewitt

The IMF estimates that scheduled debt service for Mozambique in the year following its expected completion point under the HIPC initiative will be $98 million. The IMF has not published an estimate of this figure as a proportion of this figure as a proportion of overall government expenditure.