asked the Minister of Overseas Development what was the total value of all overseas aid provided by the United Kingdom for Uganda to the latest available date for the period since General Amin took power.

The table below gives the net value of bilateral aid for Uganda in the form of grants, loans and technical co-operation less repayments of earlier loans, for the years 1971–77. Provisional figures for 1978, in which year commitments made before the suspension of aid in 1972 were finally fulfilled, indicate a further £25,000 for technical co-operation, plus £258,000 for the Uganda student refugee awards scheme.

			£ thousands
1971	…	…	3,235
1972	…	…	2,658
1973	…	…	566
1974	…	…	−592
1975	…	…	−38
1976	…	…	2
1977	…	…	−44

NOTE. The figures do not include a pensions forgiveness amount of £6·732 million for 1972, nor ex-gratia loan advances for pensions of £432,000 in 1977 and £851,000 in 1978. The minus figures indicate that in the years in question repayments of past loans exceeded current disbursements.