HC Deb 04 July 2001 vol 371 cc213-4W
10. Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the proportion of GNP given in official aid was over the course of each of the last two Parliaments. [688]

Clare Short

Under the last Conservative Administration the oda/GNP ratio fell from 0.30 per cent. in 1992 to 0.27 per cent. in 1996. In the last Parliament the ratio rose to 0.31 in 2000. We have made a commitment to reach a level of 0.33 per cent. oda/GNP by 2003–04 a level not seen in the UK since the mid 1980s.