Export Credits Guarantee Department

HC Deb 15 June 2004 vol 422 cc816-8W

Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to her answer of 13 January 2004,Official Report, column 696W, on the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), what information her Department can provide within reasonable cost that will not prejudice ECGD negotiations. [177722]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

We are able to provide a breakdown of all of ECGD's unrecovered claims on a market-by-market basis (see following table). This information is updated regularly on ECGD's website at www.ecgd.gov.uk. These figures do not include our assessment of what claims are or ate not recoverable. To disclose these figures would prejudice ECGD's attempts to recover claims outstanding.

Country	Unrecovered claims ((£)
Algeria	129,541,473.30
Angola	52,540,571.75
Antigua and Barbuda	2,745,763.44
Argentina	31,517,224.98
Australia	7,144,450.70
Bahrain	69,465.62
Belgium	18,688,061.48
Benin	1.00
Bolivia	0.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	895,641.37
Brazil	176,101,779.37
Bulgaria	0.01
Burkina Faso	0.00
Cameroon	24,387,259.69
Canada	17,085,467.64
Central African Republic	144,745.87
Chad	0.00
Colombia	1,024,981.33
Congo	58,027,462.04
Costa Rica	0.00
Cote D'Ivoire	21,029,634.18
Croatia	46,133,199.40
Cuba	52,146,568.31
Cyprus	454.00
Dominica	981,167.37
Ecuador	27,136,774.09
Egypt	134,034,814.42
El Salvador	0.00
Ethiopia	10,996,463.86
France	83,801.01
Gabon	74,718,999.71
Germany	0.00
Ghana	50,821,016.55
Greece	120,559.82
Grenada	957,608.78
Guinea	922,419.10
Guyana	0.01
India	1,742.06
Indonesia	772,775,807.24
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	28,766,647.48
Iraq	621,852,319.97
Israel	0.00
Italy	71,063.06
Jamaica	1,170,673.49
Jordan	216,315,339.29
Kazakhstan	5.97
Kenya	16,555,734.19
Korea, Democratic People's Republic	5,864,356.17
Kuwait	1,398,519.12
Lebanon	77.14
Liberia	7,875,586.13
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	8,972,335.50
Macedonia	2,382,683.45
Madagascar	9,930,882.07
Malawi	306,816.44
Mali	0.04
Mauritania	0.00
Mexico	1,291,657.72
Morocco	19,684,364.48
Mozambique	159,513.38
Myanmar	22,904,009.02
Nicaragua	367,532.50
Niger	3,370,318.92
Nigeria	1,650,458,746.72
Pakistan	6,517,406.84
Paraguay	5,939.89
Peru	56,027,018.47

Country	Unrecovered claims ((£)
Philippines	6,089,710.50
Poland	359,163,789.81
Portugal	1.00
Russian Federation	570,898,987.19
Saudi Arabia	1,305,765.53
Senegal	616,506.63
Serbia Republic	148,479,862.67
Seychelles	882,602.43
Sierra Leone	810,763.64
Singapore	5,326.27
Somalia	10,380,865.12
Spain	64,866.50
Sri Lanka	811.63
Sudan	89,460,418.44
Switzerland	23,412,038.16
Syrian Arab Republic	0.00
Taiwan	0.00
Tanzania, United Republic of	7,374.26
Togo	9,460,912.59
Turkey	1,632,772.29
Turkmenistan	0.00
Uganda	619.00
United States	3,207,078.66
Vietnam	5,528,838.01
Yemen	0.00
Yugoslavia	0.00
Zaire	24,652,248.37
Zambia	67,215,313.47
Zimbabwe	85,797,036.06