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42.
Mr. Canavan
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what percentage of the overseas aid budget is spent on education.
Mr. Neil Marten
We spend about 12 per cent. of our bilateral aid programme on aid to education. The following table summarises our bilateral aid to education for 1980, the latest year for which published statistics are available, but it is not possible to quantify our aid to education through multilateral agencies. I have also arranged for copies to be placed in the Library of a recent paper published by my Department on "British Aid to Education in Developing Countries".Following is the information.
£000s | |
Support of experts and volunteers | 28,618 |
British Council (including aid administration) | 24,818 |
Training in education | 8,369 |
Commonwealth education co-operation | 2,546 |
Capital aid | 2,700 |
Support for higher and technical education through the Inter University Council and TETOC | 3,292 |
Miscellaneous schemes including books aid | 2,526 |
Total: | 72,869 |
Total bilateral programme £604 million. |