HC Deb 25 April 2002 vol 384 cc432-3W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what foreign infrastructure programmes the Department is involved in. [52148]

Clare Short

We are increasingly allocating our funds to multi-donor or multilateral programmes in order to both minimise the transaction cost and use our inputs to help guide the allocation of funds of other donors.

In addition, much of our programme is now channelled through the central budgets of the recipient developing countries we are assisting.

In both these instances, where our money is mixed with that of others in order to achieve broad development objectives, rather than for individual projects, we are unable to give specific details of the infrastructure projects in which we are involved.

We are however, in many of our recipient countries, still providing funds in direct support of specific infrastructure projects and programmes. Table 1 shows these projects, by number and value in each sector.

Table 1: Infrastructure projects by sector, number and value
(£ million)
Sector Number Value
Air Transport 7 2.5
Energy 10 14.8
Misc. Transport 4 14.1
Roads 15 125.1
Communications 3 0.9
Water and Sanitation 46 82.9

Note:

Table details operational and planned projects over the value of £100,000 that commenced in or after 1998.