§ Mr. Peter BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which Ministers in his Department visited Belize in each year between 1990 and 1997; and what support his Department gave Belize in each year. [96213]
§ Mr. BattleThe following Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Ministers visited Belize in the years 1990–97: Mr. Tristan Garel-Jones (1991), the right hon. David Heathcoat-Amory MP (March 1994) and Sir Nicholas Bonsor (June 1996).
The total Overseas Development Administration programmes for Belize were as follows:
Year £ 1989–90 2,905,000 1990–91 2,678,000 1991–92 2,970,000 1992–93 4,273,000 1993–94 5,693,000 1994–95 5,395,000 1995–96 3,499,000 1996–97 1,995,000 1997–98 2,300,000 The 1997–98 figure includes the period during which the Department for International Development was established. A breakdown of these statistics is available in "British Aid Statistics/Statistics on International Development" which is available in the Library of the House. The Commonwealth Development Corporation also invested in Belize during this period. In addition to the above funding from its ODA wing, the FCO provided Belize with other support in a variety of forms including sponsored visits, scholarships and military training and equipment. Figures for the total value of this support are not readily available.