Tristan da Cunha

HC Deb 12 February 2004 vol 417 cc1655-6W

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much financial support has been given to(a) St. Helena, (b) Tristan da Cunha and (c) the Ascension Islands in each of the last five years. [154200]

Mr. Gareth Thomas

I have been asked to reply. DFID bilateral disbursements for St. Helena in the Financial years 1998–99 to 2002–03 were as follows:

	£000
1998–99	8,805
1999–2000	9,363
2000–01	10,116
2001–02	10,106
2002–03	9,555

These figures include some modest support for Tristan da Cunha, totalling less than £200,000 annually. We do not provide any direct bilateral assistance to Ascension Island.

St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension Island also receive some assistance from the FCO Good Governance Fund and Economic Diversification Programme. Those figures for the same period are as follows:

	St. Helena	Ascension Island	Tristan da Cunha
1998–99	163,274	—	—
1999–2000	231,040	64,410	33,563
2000–01	212,002	126,859	—
2001–02	321,359	288,445	9,504
2002–03	436,428	15,000	187,932

Since 1995, St. Helena has also been allocated a total of 14.35 million euros from European Union funds.