To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list any requests he has received from the Government of Zambia for specific items of aid since July.

Since July of this year, the Government of Zambia have formally requested:

(a) extension of earlier assistance to the Central Statistical Office;

(b) assistance with rehabilitation of Lusaka urban district council water supply, sanitation and other utilities;

(c) provision of fisheries instructors;

(d) a second phase of assistance under the Central Province district development project; and

(e) payment of the first £5 million tranche of a £30 million programme aid grant in support of economic adjustment.

Items (b) and (c) are under consideration, the former in company with other donors. The remaining requests have been accepted and implementation is in hand.