To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will restore cuts made since 1980 in the real value of United Kingdom aid to the front-line states and the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference.

We are committed to the maintenance of substantial aid programmes in the region within an overall aid budget that is planned to grow in real terms. Aid expenditure to the member states of SADCC was £106·3 million in 1986 and £129·7 million in 1987.