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Sri Lanka

Volume 184: debated on Monday 21 January 1991

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To ask the secretary of state for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the current level of the bilateral aid to Sri Lanka.

Total United Kingdom bilateral aid to Sri Lanka was £23·552million in 1989, the latest year for which figures are available, and comprised:

£ million
Capital aid6·391
Technical co-operation8·222
Aid and trade provision4·158
Commonwealth development corporation3·114
Debt relief1·589
Disaster relief0·078
Expenditure is expected to have been substantially less in 1990, due in part to the security situation