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Mr. Timms
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate she has made of the total official debt owed by Mozambique; and what was the amount spent by Mozambique on (a) debt service, (b) health and (c) education, in terms of (i) US dollars, (ii) US dollars per capita, (iii) percentage of GNP and (iv) percentage of government expenditure in each of the last three years. [31679]
Clare Short
We are able to obtain only the following details:
| Total official external debt (US$ million) | Total debt service as a percentage of GNP | |
| 1993 | 5,209 | 10 |
| 1994 | 5,651 | 11 |
| 1995 | 5,781 | 13 |
| Percentage shares of Government of Mozambique recurrent expenditure | ||
| Education | Health | |
| 1993 | 12 | 6 |
| 1994 | 10 | 5 |
| 1995 | 16 | 8 |