HC Deb 26 March 2002 vol 382 cc874-5W
Mr. David Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the total financial value was of aid and assistance give by the United Kingdom to each member country of the Commonwealth in each of the last five years. [45675]

Clare Short

The information requested is set out in the following table.

UK assistance to Commonwealth countries
£ thousands
Country 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01
St. Lucia 441 10,355 442 886 1,006
St. Vincent and Grenadines 587 1,736 681 311 215
Trinidad and Tobago 278 284 258 254 214
Turks and Caicos Islands 3,198 2,569 3,808 4,044 2,848
Bangladesh 44,330 39,078 67,361 71,794 76,921
Brunei 18 10 6 6 5
India 111,789 114,022 110,374 107,283 128,817
Malaysia -1,307 -1,259 960 1,086 591
Maldives 348 292 310 292 286
Pakistan 59,365 32,704 27,654 23,477 16,342
Singapore 210 153 133 139 150
Sri Lanka 19,891 11,552 7,864 7,827 10,453
Cyprus 287 310 380 188 144
Gibraltar 163 192 103 23 27
Malta 120 1,934 146 99 122

DFID has a regional programme in the Pacific; figures on countries in the region that are members of the Commonwealth are not available separately.

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