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Mr. Spellar
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, further to his answer to the hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell), on 16 April, Official Report, column 763, what is the breakdown by county of the amount of ECGD guarantees in default.
Mr. Needham
The total of £8,118·5 million in respect of gross paid claims, plus interest, under ECGD guarantees which have not been recovered or have been written off as at 31 March 1992 is made up of amounts on 130 different countries.The largest are:
| £ million | |
| Nigeria | 1,957·1 |
| Poland | 1,544·4 |
| Brazil | 903·6 |
| Iraq | 391·5 |
| Yugoslavia | 362·8 |
| Mexico | 292·4 |
| Egypt | 286·9 |
| Sudan | 277·1 |
| Zambia | 206·4 |
| Tanzania | 161·8 |
| Argentina | 130·9 |
| Morocco | 108·4 |
| Jordan | 102·5 |
| Gabon | 90·5 |
| Zaire | 87·0 |
| Congo | 86·9 |
| Mozambique | 83·7 |
| Iran | 82·2 |
| Peru | 81·4 |
| Guyana | 70·7 |
| Angola | 67·6 |
| Ecuador | 59·6 |
| Cuba | 58·6 |
| Philippines | 55·5 |
| Cameroon | 46·1 |