Great Lakes Region

HC Deb 04 July 2002 vol 388 c545W

Ms Oona King

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what level of development aid her Department has made available to(a) Burundi and (b) other countries in the Great Lakes Region in the last five years. [66324]

Clare Short

Over the past five years, my Department made the following levels of development aid available to Burundi, and other countries in the Great Lakes region:

£ million
	Burundi	Dem. Rep. Congo	Rwanda	Uganda
1997–98	1.6	6.9	6.2	47.9
1998–99	0.3	0.5	13.6	52.5
1999–2000	0.9	1.3	14.4	81.2
2000–01	1.5	3.1	32.8	86.2
2001–02	10.5	15.5	126.9	166.6
1 These figures are provisional. Final disbursement figures will be available in November when the 2002 edition of DFID's 'Statistics on International Development' will be published.