§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of(a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability, measured in hectares per person, of farmland in Pakistan. [167205]
Mr. Gareth ThomasNone. However, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation statistics1 in 2001 the agricultural area in Pakistan was 27.1 million hectares and the agricultural area per capita was 0.19 hectares.
1Source:faostat.fao.org
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of(a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability of fresh water in Pakistan. [167208]
Mr. Gareth ThomasAccording to a World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund assessment, data on the percentage of availability of improved water supplies in Pakistan is as follows:
Percentage Urban Rural Total 1990 96 77 83 2000 95 87 90 Source: WHO-UNICEF http://unstats.un.org The Millennium Development Goal target for Pakistan for total availability of improved water supplies by 2,015 corresponds to 92 per cent.1
To assist the Government of Pakistan improve access to water and sanitation, DFID is undertaking a £6.5 million five year Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in North West Frontier Province in support of the devolved government process, which will benefit a total of 1 million persons. Water is also one of the key sectors in which DFID is engaged in Faisalabad in Punjab province as part of a programme of support to the decentralised government system for the delivery of basic services.
948W1World Bank Development Indicators