§ Dr. HarrisTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her answer of 2 February 2000,Official Report, column 619W, on primary education, how much each heavily indebted poor country received from the UK's bilateral aid budget for the provision of primary education for each of the last three years. [118350]
§ Clare ShortThe following table indicates UK bilateral development assistance expenditure on primary education in heavily indebted poor countries over the last three financial years for which data are available. These data refer only to projects and programmes aimed solely at primary education. There is also expenditure on this area included in wider projects and programmes, or funded through NGOs, which cannot be separately identified.
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£ actuals 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 Ethiopia 114,930 10,283 405,152 Ghana 0 42,373 4,833,831 Kenya 1,154,093 2,004,629 2,721,644 Malawi 2,571,480 2,420,122 3,924,906
£ actuals 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 Mozambique 0 136.018 77,679 Tanzania 46,168 41,382 70,095 Uganda 0 0 11,000,000 Zambia 6,688 10,429 32,505 Total 3,893,359 4,665,236 13,065,812 1 Initial expenditure against DFID's commitment of £67 million to Uganda's Education Strategic Investment Programme (1998–2003), one of the prime objectives of which is to achieve universal primary education by 2003.