asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will give the outturn figures for the gross aid programme of each of the years 1978–79 to 1985–86, together with the estimated figure for 1986–87; and what proportion of gross national product these figures represent;(2) if he will give the percentage of the gross aid programme in each of the years 1978–79 to 1985–86, together with estimates for 1986–87, spent on

The information is as follows:disbursed as

The information is as follows:

	Project aid	Programme aid	Technical co-operation	Budgetary aid	Aid and trade provision
1982–83	225	61	218	10	47
1983–84	217	48	244	12	28
1984–85	239	36	276	10	59
1985–86	248	53	302	9	36
1986–87	215	79	304	8	90

Figures for 1986–87 are provisional estimates.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of technical co-operation aid in the years 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87 estimated was devoted to (a) the provision of experts, wholly or partly financed, (b) training and (c) other forms of assistance.

The information is as follows:

	1984–85 per cent.	1985–86 per cent.
Experts	32	31
Training	21	20
Other	47	49

"Experts" includes consultancies and "training" includes Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships.Planning allocations are not based on categories of technical co-operation, so an analysis for 1986–87 will be available only after the accounts have been completed.